You cannot pause single-player wargames mode.

[Adefice]

Why on earth can't we pause the single-player version of wargames? You literally have to stay glued to the game the entire time or risk losing. Some of us are parents and need to get up from time to time...

[casey080 (Nightfangs)]

What? I saw a trailer a few weeks ago where they explicitly praised how the game is at a slow pace, and you could active-pause at any moment to give your orders. Why do they try to scam us like that?

[Adefice]

Originally posted by casey080 (Nightfangs):

What? I saw a trailer a few weeks ago where they explicitly praised how the game is at a slow pace, and you could active-pause at any moment to give your orders. Why do they try to scam us like that?

In the campaign you can, but not the replayable war games mode when you are single-player. I understand not being able to pause in co-op, but playing solo should be different.

[Falaris]

Originally posted by Adefice:

Originally posted by casey080 (Nightfangs):

What? I saw a trailer a few weeks ago where they explicitly praised how the game is at a slow pace, and you could active-pause at any moment to give your orders. Why do they try to scam us like that?

In the campaign you can, but not the replayable war games mode when you are single-player. I understand not being able to pause in co-op, but playing solo should be different.

It should. I suspect their thinking is to keep the code-base the same if you play coop or SP wargames - as it should be, that's good practice programming. Still, they can easily add a toggle for wether it's sp/mp and 'lock' the feature if MP. Currently they don't want to do that, but that's what every game like that says and then they add it.

[Overread]

The problem then is that singleplayer and multiplayer Wargames players will have different experiences and give different feedback. SP ones might use the pause feature a lot and thus be happy with much more complex wargame experiences; whilst MP ones might well find themsleves totally overwhelmed by the experience without pause.

So suddenly you're building and balancing two separate systems and the more they build off user feedback the more the two might diverge. Which means a lot more work supporting both and perhaps less resources to do other stuff (like supporting skirmish and campaign updates/additions).


So honestly this is one case where I understand why its got a limit on functionality in singleplayer that's identical to the multiplayer experience.

The only part I'd change is the inclusion of saving options or at least the option of a whole game pause (time limited in mp to stop people abusing it) and thus giving people the option to pause and resume. Those would be worth working on that won't change the gameplay itself; but make it more practical because now you don't have to worry about getting interrupted in a run or having to never leave to go to the toilet and such

[RivalGrimReaper5]

The war games mode is ridiculous too, they are near on impossible, you are literally constantly getting bombarded by destroyers and frigates, and all you can build are attack craft and some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ frigates, its not a fun mode.

[Raphx]

+1 to pause the game

[Capsssssss]

Wait you can pause in singleplayer?

[Mastermatta]

Originally posted by Capssssss:

Wait you can pause in singleplayer?

you can pause in the campaign.

[YutaniKaede]

press Esc and time isn't progressing.

[Capsssssss]

Sigh I know you can go into the options menu and pause, what I meant was tactical pause to order your units

[Capsssssss]

NVM, I've finished already and just learned that

[YutaniKaede]

Ah. I saw a youtuber go on and on about the "no pause" gripe, while saying "he couldn't take phone calls or answer the door"
- I guess I was just tiredly mixing up those arguments with this thread. My bad ^^

[casey080 (Nightfangs)]

No pause, no purchase. I'm sick of not being able to pause solo games. It was bad in BG3, and now the next big game does it the same way...

[kercrowder]

I am playing ALONE -> I WANT A "PAUSE" MODE !!! I want to play SLOWLY -> I AM OLD .. Is it easy to understand ? And you know what, the game is better at 50% speed .. You can ENJOY the fights .. Get down from on earth GODS !

[Something completely different]

Originally posted by casey080 (Nightfangs):

No pause, no purchase. I'm sick of not being able to pause solo games. It was bad in BG3, and now the next big game does it the same way...

You're complaining about not being able to pause a turn based game like BG3?

The things people think up to complain about. I guess pushing F5 to quick save was too hard.