The Architect: Paris - Game Released

Hello everyone!

Here we are, Today is THE DAY. We made changes, We made progress, we made improvements, but most important, we made The Architect: Paris greater. We listened to your feedbacks, added new Features and Content. We hope you'll get a kick out of everything we made and seize the opportunity to change Paris forever.

Here's a summary of all our patch-notes, including September.

• New Districts - 24 Added

  • District D02

  • District D03

  • District D04

  • District D05

  • District D13

  • District D14

  • District D17

  • District D18

  • District D19

  • District D20

  • District D22

  • District D23

  • District D25

  • District D26

  • District D27

  • District D28

  • District D29

  • District D30

  • District D31

  • District D34

  • District D49

  • District D52

  • District D53

  • District D58

• New Designs - 116 Added

  • American Bank

  • Arenas

  • Art Deco

  • Attic

  • Black Tower

  • Brooklyn (+ Variations – x7)

  • Brutal

  • Church

  • CIA

  • Cyclades

  • Dominion

  • Embassy (+ Variations – x7)

  • French Restoration

  • French Riviera

  • Future (+ Variations – x8)

  • Haussmann Simple

  • Haussmann Empire

  • HLM1

  • HLM2

  • International Style

  • Kahnn

  • Lava (+ Variations – x8)

  • Living in the box

  • Louis XIV

  • Maillols (+ Variations – x10)

  • Marinière

  • Metal Flower

  • Monster (+ Variations – x13)

  • Moorish

  • Naja Legionis

  • Nucleus

  • Pagoda

  • Phoenix

  • Post-Haussmann

  • Renaissance (+ Variations – x12)

  • Shibu

  • Wave

  • White Tower

  • 1970 Paris

  • Number N°1 – Blue | Orange | Yellow (x3)

  • Number N°2 – Blue | Orange | Yellow (x3)

  • Number N°4 – Blue | Orange | Yellow (x3)

  • Number N°5 – Blue | Orange | Yellow (x3)

  • Number N°6 - Yellow

  • Number N°7 – Blue | Orange | Yellow (x3)

  • Number N°9 – Blue | Orange | Yellow (x3)

• New Type: Walls - 3 Added

  • Bulwark

  • Division

  • Square Fort

• New Parks presets - 5 Added

  • Courtyard

  • English Park

  • Funfair Park

  • «Jardin à la Française» park

  • Urban Farm

• New Plazas presets - 9 Added

  • Antique kiosk

  • Basketball field

  • Classical fountain

  • Kiosk

  • Lonesome wolf

  • Oh Deer!

  • Open kiosk

  • Soccer field

  • Tennis court

• New Lands presets - 6 Added

  • Grass

  • Brick

  • Sand

  • Clay

  • Sandstone

  • Concrete

• New Time of Day (TOD) - 2 Added

  • « Summer Rain » Time of Day

  • « Paris 2049 » Time of Day

• Content Tiers

  • Added VFX on Parks, Plazas, etc.

  • Added new Roof materials

  • Added new textures for Plants & Shops

  • Added Double street lights model

  • Added Futuristic School type

  • Added Roof Objects in a futuristic style

• Added Compass HUD

• Added Modding

• Added Design Market

• Added The Atelier

• New modes

  • Career

  • Sandbox

    • Empty Paris (Vacant land only) Vanilla Paris (previous version)

• Added Auto Saves and updated save/load panels

• Added wide, extra-wide and 4/3 screen ratios support

• Photo Mode

• Urban Planner

• Added Flying Objects spawn along the Block & District index

• Added Terrain presets

• Added recent category in the Drawing Board Builder (5 last used).

• Added building option to activate/deactivate Blind Facades, Store Fronts and Roof Objects

• Added slider to change Trees and Assets coverage on a Park or Land Plot

• Added Drawing Board selection colour Setting

• Teaser Projects ⇒ Replaced by Career Projects Feature

• Socio-Economic Fabric system (SEF)

• Added Mission Screenshots flow

• Added export Mission flow to Career mode

• Added Tutorial Missions

• Added evaluation Missions

• Added Districts buying mechanic in career mode

• Added Earning Mechanism to the game (on Mission completion and Workshop upvotes)

• Added Flying Objects that may appear when a Block is a major People, Planet or Profit orientation

  • People

    • Kite

    • Ads-screen

    • Zeppelin

  • Planet

    • Solar panels

    • Flying Windmills

    • Floating Islands

  • Profit

    • Drones

    • Holograms Ads

    • Human Holograms

• Added SEF effects

  • Fireworks

  • Demonstration

  • Heat wave

  • Petals

• Added 116 Designs

• Added 3 Walls Designs

• Added 23 Districts

• Added 6 Lands Presets

• Added 5 Parks Presets

• Added 9 Plaza Presets

• Added 2 Time of Days (TOD)

• Added several Content tiers

• Block Sharing

• Workshop Mods – Upvote System

• Added Mod.io connection for GOG & Epic stores

• New save system: reducing drastically save time and save files size

• Added error management on Save/Load

• Added support of non-Gregorian calendars (was preventing players to save or load)

• Added in-game connection to Steam’s Workshop for modding and community based features support

• In a new game, tab is now blocked when the Welcome Window appears

• Added a message in Strategic Map asking to select a district

• Added a pop-up when resetting a plot from the Drawing Board

• Replaced random rotation for roof objects with rotation towards the longest façade.

• Check if selected block is in the same district as fly-over and trigger a GoTo accordingly

• Removed special characters restrictions in Feedback form

• Removed typing sounds for feedback form

• Added new Drawing Board tips

• Added a timer to change loading tips (instead of changing at every screen)

• Added a panel update when the player select an already modified plot

• Adapted background sizes and spacing between texts, separators & buttons of the Welcome Windows

• The new shortcut for hiding the selection is now H by default, instead of ALT

• Using CTRL slows the camera down

• Added new languages: Spanish | Italian | Pусский | 中文

• Simulation optimized for procedural assets

• Added CLUF / EULA pop-up when starting the game

• Added Steam cloud Save support

• Added Epic cloud Save support

• Added GOG cloud Save support

• Loading time optimization

• Extended River sound to canals and rework on Fireworks sounds

• Updated Translations

• Removed outdated Loading Tips

• Optimized re-generation of Parks, Plazas, Roof Objects and general Urban Planner generation

• Improve Roof Garden generation in order to better handle some presets (Pools for instance)

• Optimizing RAM taken by City meshes

• Optimization of non TAA Antialiasing methods by not computing Motion Vectors

• Authorized Stores Screenshots everywhere

• Optimized New Game loading time

• Updated New Game’s flow

• Many Level Design tweaks and fixes

• Rendering optimization (disable Motion Vectors on assets)

• Enabled Sandbox Mode for players with existing Sandbox saves (EA)

• Many UI/UX tweaks and fixes

• Centred Drawing Board, Plot Editor and Strategic Map UI navigation

• Added Stars tracker to the navigation bar

• Graphic settings now applied in Cinematics

• Changed the Steam URL trying to avoid antivirus quarantine

• Updated Helpers for Sandbox mode

• Chinese traduction of the Missions texts is complete

• Added specific sounds around Landmarks and Main Projects

• Added shops bricks for non-player styles (x5)

• Balancing of the Vehicles spawns regarding the viewer’s position

• Added fountains FX in Landmarks

• Updated land panel to be more accurate and dynamic

• Many UI tweaks and fixes on the Photo Mode

• City View UI update

• Added confirmation pop-up on Main Project creation

• Harmonization of White Model materials

• Fix sun’s position to reflect geographic reality

• Update of the hierarchy of Time Of Days and Weathers in City View

• Added Urban Planner Construction Sites progression display

• Added objects on Construction Sites ground

• Added Parked Cars switch along district’s average m² price

• Added Photo Mode Orbital Camera

• Roofs update on vanilla D19/28/53

• Updated Career Photo flow to allow a retake

• Added Social Economic Fabric (SEF) switch for parked cars

• Added Districts and Landmarks icons for D49, D52, D53 and D58

• Added Blocks SEF Panel in City View

• Added Demonstration and Fireworks to SEF effects

• Updated PPP Flying Objects

• Updated City View panels for special cases

• Added outline and GoTo on Mission Blocks

• Activate Highlight Missions Blocks selection when exiting Photo Mode

• Adjusted Pedestrians in D01/D02/03/04

• Added SEF energy consumption effects (heat wave and petals)

• Updated SEF event spawns on number of buildings and not only event slots

• Updated Districts Camera spawn position

• Added sprites for D05 and D34

• Added Homeless tents appearance on Districts

• Defined Mid-day as default Time Of Day in Photo Mode

• Changed URL displayed after export and added possibility to copy in clipboard

• Lowered Fireworks spawn threshold

• Designs selector selection on pointer down instead of release

• Updated Drawing Board icons

• Update Plazas floor (outside the delimited square)

• Improve Plazas, Sport Fields, Parks and Lands generation algorithm (square finder)

• Added block number in the Drawing Board Builder

• Removed the possibility of flat Roofs on Designs having dormer windows

• Added a way to highlight plots in Drawing Board that are related to each objective

• Added tooltip on Design UI in Drawing Board

• Updated Drawing Board Objectives highlight and tip on hover

• Updated Drawing Board pop-up before leaving

• Added Plot Editor’s drawing Minimal Angle setting (<60°) - Playability tab

• Added Plot Editor guides as re-bindable keys (Settings)

• Plot Editor’s Merge feature now creates a type of Plot based on the selection (not always a Vacant Land)

• Plot Editor’s Cut feature now creates Plots type based on the cut Plot (not always a Vacant Land)

• All Plot Editor helps are active when entering DB

• Disable Plot Editor helps when pressing Shift (free hand drawing mode)

• Changed Edit Mode entering Plot Editor

• Changed starting point of a cut in Plot Editor only on a segment

• Updated Plot Editor UI Types and Captions

• Updated Plot Editor colours legend

• Added Plot Editor temporary lines

• Updated Plot Editor UI (mostly left panel)

• Defined default max angle to 5°

• Hiding Districts feature

• Updated images and texts on districts 25, 26, 27, 28

• Updated Strategic Map Missions selection behaviour (no default selection)

• Updated Strategic Map colours for special cases

• Updated SEF panel in Strategic Map

• Update Missions & Districts sprites in Strategic Map

• Changed Strategic Map sprite for the Atelier’s Mission

• Added recent filter in the Design Library, with updated localization

• Added floor’s height information for each design in the Design Library

• Added materials to designs infos in the Design Library

• Updated Design Library

• Added descriptions to Designs

• Added Design Bundles progression

• Added Career Saves

• Updated District acquisition (UI and game flow)

• Added tips on objective panel toggles

• Disabled Save in Workshop & evaluation Missions

• Updated Missions configuration and Objectives UI display

• Updated Tutorial UI

• Force Tutorial dialogue display when a new text is set

• Updated Tutorial (general)

• Added 27 Missions

• Added Mission Import to the Career mode flow

• Enhancement of Missions Check Prompt

• Updated Missions path and unlocking

• Updated missions last batch

• Updated Mission Photo validation UI

• Improvement of Missions Objectives compute and display

• Updated many Missions

• Added City View panel in Career mode with a list of players previous projects

• Updated Atelier Mission (0 objective)

• Updated Progression (unlock Sandbox and Atelier)

• Updated end of Mission bottom panel

• Added title in Previous Mission panel

• Social Economic Fabric (SEF) system update

• Updated SEF balance

• Added new types of objectives

• Updated Missions texts and objectives

• Updated SEF data for most recent districts and designs

• Updated behaviours and portraits pop-up in career mode

• Updated Career Helpers

• Disabled Urban Planner in Career Mode

• Disabled multi-selection in Career Mode

• Missions update: People, Width, Index District, Park, Planet, ND, Profit

• Reputation balancing (Bundles, Districts and Atelier modules prices; Missions rewards)

• Added a tip bubble hover the Urban Planner button in Career mode

• Speedup Mission Import with multiple blocks

• Update of act portraits to have corresponding narrator in popup

• Graphical update on many icons

• Added Main Project’s animation

• Added highlight feedback when a Main Project is built on the City View’s Main Project panel

• Updated F1 helpers backgrounds

• Added hovering feedback in settings panels

• Updated textures for Red Tiles and white Zinc

• Modified Cars shaders (PBR)

• Modified Fountains, Pools and Parks Water shader.

• Disable Extrudes from: Amsterdam & his variations | Frames | International

• Removed Ysangar Blind Facades

• Added Futuristic flying cars models

• Updated Mariniere Design

• Optimization on small assets rendering (roofs and street)

• Reduced SEF level 2 events

• Split the «reverse option for X axis» setting into two options, one for keyboard and the other one for mouse.

• Added ESC key as a way to disable helpers

• Added tab navigation switch to City View, you can now switch between City View → Strat Map → Design Library when pressing TAB.

• Added confirmation pop-up when restoring any setting

• Added a Graphic Setting to have more precise control on which assets we want to display:

• Ground objects (trees, plaza assets, ground parking assets)

• Roof objects (everything that goes on a roof)

• City trees (which are not part of the generation)

• Mods

• Added Mods panel with Steam Workshop support

• Added new Filters to the City View Block Import Panel

• Added new Filters to the Mods Panel

• Updated UI for the Mission Import and Export panels

• UI integration for The Atelier

• Updated Atelier 3D content and UI

• Switch Vegetation on Atelier building

• Added Atelier vegetation management

• Added Neutral Center is already built in first Atelier entrance

326 fixes in 42 versions

You can check the full fixes patch here: The Architect: Paris - Change-Log September Released 2021

Here are some problems we are aware of, and we’re working on it. The Steam version will be updated regularly, so don’t worry!

• Texts still need a bit of polish

• Balancing might still need a bit of polish

• Opening the Landmark/MP right panel when Mission’s done will prevent the mission objectives panel to re-appear (selection is blocked)

• Act III popup has a missing sprite

• Using Demolish All in Tutorial 3 will not validate the demolish step

We made it Achitects. Thanks to all of you ♥