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Devs who don't implement pausing should be beaten with a rusty pipe in Minecraft (lemmygrad.ml)
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Nothing frustrates me more than not being able to pause for no seemingly good reason. I'm playing Wild Hearts right now and even though I never play online I cannot pause for some reason. To simulate pausing, I can turn off the xbox and the quick resume feature makes it look like the game was paused when I turn the console back on.

Other games guilty of this are Fromsoft games: Dark Souls, Elden Ring and so on.

Obviously all of these games have an online component. Not allowing pausing when this component is activated makes sense. But if I am playing completely online why cannot I pause? In Soulslike the worst exploit I can think of is switching equipment on the fly but is that really that bad? When stuff comes up in the middle crucial moments it frustrates me a lot.

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[–] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Btw i think there might be a pause mod for one of the souls games on Nexusmods, have a look!

I tried one for Elden Ring. It basically freezes everyone (including you, but you can still control the camera) and everything in one place, so I guess it's technically a pause.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Interesting! I only play elden co-op so Im really loving the seamless mod. Hard to believe i put up with the vanilla way for so long!