This was the purgatory of Union Drive. A loading loop that wasn't a crash, but something worse. It was a promise of violence unfulfilled. A gunfight at the old casino that would never happen. A betrayal that would never sting. Niko realized, with a cold digital dread, that he was no longer in Liberty City. He was in the gap between data streams. A forgotten subroutine.
Roman had called. "Niko! Let's go bowling!" The phone rang, but the button prompts didn't appear. The call was a ghost, trapped in the buffer between loading assets. gta 4 union drive loading problem
Niko’s hands, still frozen on the imaginary steering wheel, began to feel heavy. The taxi was no longer a taxi. It was a glass coffin. Through the windscreen, the geometry of the city hadn't loaded. There were no skyscrapers, no homeless men urinating in alleys, no pigeons to shoot. Just a pale blue abyss. This was the purgatory of Union Drive
Fifteen minutes.
The screen flickered.
He looked in the rearview mirror. His own eyes stared back, but they weren't his. They were textures. Flat. Unblinking. The mirror reflected nothing behind the car. Because there was nothing behind the car. Only the endless, unfinished code of a world that had forgotten to load. A gunfight at the old casino that would never happen