Suggestion: Chat from Pause Screen

I thought I'd make a post for an enhancement in future builds of POE2.

Since we can now pause the game (great feature), it would be such an easy win and very appreciated if we could bring up chat from the pause screen.


This would:
1. Allow us to talk to people messaging us about trade while we are busy, so less no responses to buyers. This overall would help decrease load on the system (POE Trade automatically messaging for you).

2. Create a more social atmosphere. I am part of an active clan with a variety of player-experience. I would love to be able to pause and answer a question.

Overall, this just seems like a super easy win and I really hope GGG sees/reads this suggestion and at least discusses it.

Thanks

Please add this. A lot of the time my friends link gear they find and it would be awesome to pause and check the item and then go back to maps.

can extend this to general interface stuff as well. options, character sheet, etc.

Maybe I misunderstand your post, but, you can do this...?

(I'm on XBOX)

At any point in-game, I click the double box button to bring up the character/inventory/etc. menu. Game is paused at this point.

I then hold down LT (default binding) a moment and full chat window opens up on the left-side of the screen. In fact, near as I can tell, this is the only way I am able to interact with the chat window (I can passively see people typing stuff in chat while actually playing, in a smaller window that disappears when not active).

Yes, the console/controller version of the UI does pause whenever you open your different windows -- MNK does not do this for some reason.

It makes for a weird disconnect if you switch between control schemes.

I also would like for us to be able to change the control option in game -- I assume this isn't an option now since the game shuffles the whole UI to accommodate the controller glyphs/elements.

I really wish this feature was available on PC as well. I always instinctively press the escape key to reply to whispers or chat, and I'm disappointed every time it doesn't work. It's especially annoying when I'm using a build that needs pausing, like rapid fire.

If it's really possible on console or with a controller, I’m thinking I could just plug in a controller, but that also makes me hopeful that it could be changed for PC too.

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Hey Everyone,

I just learned you can chat from the passive skills screen (P) which also pauses the map. This is a great workaround for now.

Shout out to #Multiplicity