No Pause Button?

[Megiddo]

I was assured by the BG3 communities here that pressing Escape and/or entering full turn based mode would properly pause the game. It seems that they are a bunch of liars, as neither of those is properly pausing BG3EA in its current state.

I've just tested pressing Escape and it didn't even work to properly pause my character's movement. Please, Larian, show some basic consideration towards your single players. We need a global pause that works properly. I can completely understand why multiplayer would have pausing limitations, but I'm referring to the single player game here. Many of us are dads, moms, pet owners, and have other responsibilities where we simply cannot commit to long multiplayer sessions. We get called away from our computers quite frequently and urgently. We need a real pause option available for our single player games.

Up until now, Larian has never been capable of creating a gaming engine that will properly perform a global pause. Even the mod communities for DoS, DoS2, and BG3 have found it impossible to create a real pausing option for these engines. So, again, please, show your single players some basic courtesy and give us a real global pause option. Tie it to pressing the Escape key. Tie it to the pausing that does somewhat work in the full turn based mode. Create a new option for it that we can bind to a key. So long as it works correctly, I don't care if it hides the full screen. Just give us a global pause that actually works correctly, please.

[Whut]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1777510/Game_Pauser_by_Jase/

[Megiddo]

Thank you for the link! I haven't tested it thoroughly, but it seemed to work to pause everything as a proper pause option should work for in single player games. Shame that the 400+ team of Larian wasn't capable of creating a proper pausing option, so external utilities are the only real option for single players.

[Megiddo]

While external hack programs do appear to properly pause Baldur's Gate 3, as well as DOS and DOS2, using them shouldn't be required for single pllayers. Please, Larian, show some basic consideration towards your single players and provide real pausing options for them! I can fully understand why pausing would be limited for multiplayer use, but, surely, a team of almost 500 should find it fairly trivial to support full pause options for single players. At the very least, make it possible so that the mod communities can provide these options, please!

[Spring Heart]

There's been several times where someone IRL needed to talk to me and something happened in game because the game doesn't pause... forcing me to load an earlier save.

It would even be great if it paused while I looked through my inventory cause I play on the Steam Deck and the icons are so tiny it takes me a hot min to locate what I'm looking for.

Having the menu pause would be great.