Traffic Architect full version launches with trains, new road tools, map editor and Steam Workshop

Traffic Architect is out on Windows and Mac in 12 languages, adding all stages, trains, a map editor and many fixes based on demo player reports.

What changed

• The full version is released on Windows and Mac, following a demo available since September.

In the full game

• All stages are included, where the demo stopped partway.
• Passenger and freight trains, stations and metro are added.
• Auto Bend curves a road onto another one, and Arc draws a circle arc of a chosen size; neither is in the demo.
• The map editor works with Steam Workshop for making and playing maps.
• Creative mode lets players build without losing.
• Hard difficulty, bigger maps and four more landmark buildings are added.
• Bus lines have no limit, and there are more save slots.

New since the last demo update

• Roundabouts are now true circles, and they can be far smaller, particularly with one-way, normal and gravel roads.
• Two-way rings no longer lock up when they fill.
• A bus arriving right behind the previous one waits a little at the stop, so buses do not bunch.
• Stops where two or more lines meet have extra room for people changing lines.
• Guidelines is a new setting: On draws dashed guide lines, while Snapping additionally fits a T square onto a road and aligns with nearby road ends.
• Angle and length are always shown while building.
• An overloaded building names the unreachable destination and marks it red.
• Clicking a car also shows the route it already drove.
• The ` key cycles map modes.

Traffic fixes

• Cars no longer stop one by one on a green when a car ahead turns into a building.
• Motorway ramps on a bend get correct lanes, and the extra lane no longer removes itself with a lag spike.
• Demand-responsive traffic lights no longer mix up car limits after loading a save.

Road tool fixes

• T junctions now snap to the closest spot to a junction that the rules permit, and not to places where the build would refuse them.
• Long roads snap less, so the end no longer jumps away from the cursor.
• The Interchange tool turns the second road only through allowed angles and builds no ramp on a neighboring road.
• Partial upgrade of a short road no longer leaves a piece that cannot be upgraded.
• Short pieces next to a bridge can be upgraded.
• The turn lane tool refuses less often and explains when a lane never joined the road behind it.
• The centre line is kept off a shallow Y where cars cross it, and lane lines end at the stop line.

Interface and saves

• Zooming in no longer goes under the map.
• If the graphics driver crashes, the game says so instead of showing a blank map.
• The overload banner no longer covers the map mode list.
• Esc on stats closes only the stats.
• A lost or deleted city can no longer come back from its backup.
• The game tells you when a save is restored from backup.
• Upkeep for buses is displayed per minute, so small and large buses are no longer shown as the same.