May 26, 2014

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At the Farris Halstead Library train station in the Loop, if you follow the tracks to the east, you will discover a junction where opposing straight tracks from the north and south intersect with the eastward tracks. These eastward straight tracks are unusual in that they seem to continue and stop before the edge of the elevated platform with no bumpers to mark the end of it, appearing unfinished. It should be noted though that no trains traveling eastward will actually go down these straight tracks all the way due to the curved transition tracks guiding them away. In the real-life Loop in Chicago, this spot would be located at the junction right after the Harold Washington Library train station, which unlike its depiction in Watch Dogs has no straight tracks continuing after the curved tracks at all.

This detail is notable because the day before Watch Dogs' release in May 2014, an anonymous developer claiming to have worked on the game posted to 4chan their insight on the game's development and experience working with Ubisoft Montreal, including details on how the train tracks worked in earlier builds of the game that may be talking about this unfinished intersection:

"Earlier when we were just working on world buildings etc, Montreal said we need to create a path for the L-train so that's what they did, but they put fucking 90 degree turns on the tracks! So I asked them for time/resources to fix this, they respond "we don't see your issue."

So I went ahead and sent them a video of this, showing how retarded a train running at 80mp/h looks when turning 90 degrees, they tell me "We see your issue but it's too late, maybe we'll patch this later." This was back in October [2013], before the delay announcement etc although you can probably still see in the game tracks marks left of that, which we missed cleaning up. In the October demo that was shown with the train if it went any further you'd see the 90 degree turns."

In 2020, an early build of the game dated to September 21, 2013 was dumped online by YouTuber JustAnyone, but it's currently unknown if this mistake existed in this build.

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