Can we now finally get the game to pause?

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Timbo Zero#8289 wrote:

It has been said by Jonathan that you can pause the game at any time (that he believes talking to an npc effectively does so as well) and restart by unpausing.
If in a group however, any one player pauses you all and any one player unpauses you all. So if you pause and go afk and they unpause you’ll be coming back (more than likely) from your afk dead.

Why is this conv still going on? I provided the answer that you can and it’s in PoE2 confirmed by lead director.
If it’s still going on for PoE1 just be patient as they’ve said they wish to port back many of poe2 QoL feature to poe1

this game was made for watching tv, pause is obvious, i need to get snacks during my uber fight and switch episodes.

Never a feature i would have expected but being able to pause in a fight to take care of some real life stuff would be amazing too.

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SilentSymphony#3358 wrote:

this game was made for watching tv, pause is obvious, i need to get snacks during my uber fight and switch episodes.

Never a feature i would have expected but being able to pause in a fight to take care of some real life stuff would be amazing too.

Then drop a portsl, go to your safe hideout and do your ‘business’.

Stuff like this would make group play a nightmare. Also people would figure out how to use this to cheat.

Blame the degenerates not ggg.

Yes they are adding pause to single player
And it's so nice
This used to just be a standard thing in video games
As long as it only works in single player, it's just a big positive

(by single player, not in a group. I know the game requires being online)

being able to pause the game makes poe 2 alot less attractive cause it takes away pressure, excitement and authenticity from the gameplay.

it's like your wife is loudly enraged about stuff you do and you just pause her for a day to hear the end of the arguments, it's pretty unfair to have more time than her to think things through :-)

the consequence is that the game needs to be much more harder to accomodate for the fact you can stop it everytime you want, eventually you will need the pauses to survive most situations and a permanently paused game is not what gamers want, it's what unskilled folks want

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vio#1992 wrote:

being able to pause the game makes poe 2 alot less attractive cause it takes away pressure, excitement and authenticity from the gameplay.

it's like your wife is loudly enraged about stuff you do and you just pause her for a day to hear the end of the arguments, it's pretty unfair to have more time than her to think things through :-)

the consequence is that the game needs to be much more harder to accomodate for the fact you can stop it everytime you want, eventually you will need the pauses to survive most situations and a permanently paused game is not what gamers want, it's what unskilled folks want

lol i really find it amusing that i cant tell if you're joking or being serious given the state of the forums where we have people victim blaming whenever trade scams happen.

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Lonnie455Rich#2087 wrote:

Stuff like this would make group play a nightmare. Also people would figure out how to use this to cheat.

Blame the degenerates not ggg.

jfyi in an interview in poe2, if you have a group of chronomancers, ggg is letting them trigger the time stop ability one after another.

if this is being allowed then theres no reason pausing cant be a thing. also its on GGG to make the game better and prevent abuse.

have we fallen so in love with GGG that we forgot that they should also try and improve their game and just accept shitty things being shitty because "ggg cant solve it"?

also if multiplayer abuse is an issue, just disable pausing in multiplayer.

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exsea#1724 wrote:

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vio#1992 wrote:

being able to pause the game makes poe 2 alot less attractive cause it takes away pressure, excitement and authenticity from the gameplay.

it's like your wife is loudly enraged about stuff you do and you just pause her for a day to hear the end of the arguments, it's pretty unfair to have more time than her to think things through :-)

the consequence is that the game needs to be much more harder to accomodate for the fact you can stop it everytime you want, eventually you will need the pauses to survive most situations and a permanently paused game is not what gamers want, it's what unskilled folks want

lol i really find it amusing that i cant tell if you're joking or being serious given the state of the forums where we have people victim blaming whenever trade scams happen.

watched the jonathan interview afterwards, it turns out that in poe2 you can now just press a key which freezes the game. you just need to bind one key to a exe file which silently drops all tcp packets coming from the client.

of course it's meant to prevent deaths caused by lag.

that's a bit unfair to console players who don't have the ability to run programs on their rented property (playstation, xbox). they would have to setup a local proxy server doing the dropping for them, it's a bit more effort but not impossible, since i started online gaming, cheats ever ran on network proxies to prevent detection. packet encryption never really stopped them.