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 ♥