No Pause button?

[UltimaCJ]

So only safe time to pause the game is do your aim deal. Or am I missing something? This has Dark Souls pausing basically? Please correct if I'm wrong. Tried every button there's no menu / pause menu while on the field?

[DoomyDoom]

You can pause via "do you want to end turn" dialogue (esc/B) or unit stats (F/Y). But no, there is no pause that lets you look around other that aim mode. This is not a purely turn-based game.

[Chrysalis]

There is no need for a pause function, that's why it hasn't bee included in the game.

It's part of the unique genre mix of real-time strategy with turn-based strategy this game provides.

[UltimaCJ]

What if I need to sudden urge to go to the bathroom or something? I mean a pause screen can COVER the entire area so I don't have to "cheat" lots of games do that. Well thanks for answering, this just lost a couple points review wise.

[Chrysalis]

Originally posted by UltimaCJ:

What if I need to sudden urge to go to the bathroom or something? I mean a pause screen can COVER the entire area so I don't have to "cheat" lots of games do that. Well thanks for answering, this just lost a couple points review wise.

Plan ahead like a grown up if you can't holt it for an hour.

[racercowan]

It would be nice to access the menus while controlling people sometimes, but it's not really an issue. Unless you have some form of impairment, just wait a couple seconds to finish up what you're doing, or take care of it before taking control of a character.

[DoomyDoom]

If you need pause for irl stuff, then "Do you want to end turn?" screen does that. It has a "no" option to continue the turn.

[UltimaCJ]

Originally posted by Chrysalis:

Originally posted by UltimaCJ:

What if I need to sudden urge to go to the bathroom or something? I mean a pause screen can COVER the entire area so I don't have to "cheat" lots of games do that. Well thanks for answering, this just lost a couple points review wise.

Plan ahead like a grown up if you can't holt it for an hour.

Yeah and cause many types of infections and damage to the bladder and such by not taking care of yourself. Good "grown up" answer there. Life doesn't have a pause button, but games can.

[Chrysalis]

Originally posted by UltimaCJ:

Originally posted by Chrysalis:

Plan ahead like a grown up if you can't holt it for an hour.

Yeah and cause many types of infections and damage to the bladder and such by not taking care of yourself. Good "grown up" answer there. Life doesn't have a pause button, but games can.

People with this kind of deficiency are a very small margin and thus don't matter.
There are simply not enough people with this kind of handicap, to justify adding a pause button just for them.

[Lanzagranadas]

Originally posted by UltimaCJ:

What if I need to sudden urge to go to the bathroom or something? I mean a pause screen can COVER the entire area so I don't have to "cheat" lots of games do that. Well thanks for answering, this just lost a couple points review wise.

Why would you need a pause button so much when:

-Time stops when you take aim (and taking aim doesn't force you to shoot, you can cancel it)
-Time stops when you're in command mode, which happens between each character action.
-As long as your characters aren't taking interception fire, you can leave them waiting there for as long as you want and they'll be totally safe.
-You can even hide in grass, or behind a wall depending on the situation, to break enemy sight line and stay safe.

It's not a real time action game and no enemy will move during your phase. The only thing that actually runs in real time is interception fire, and you aren't going to be under interception fire all the time.

[SCIM]

You can litterly drop the controller at any time and walk away and nothing will happen in game while you are gone as long as you aren't standing somewhere where you are taking damage.

In other words there is no pause button because the lack of pressing buttons is what pauses the game.

[clockwork unicorn]

I agree with UltimaCJ. Every game should have a pause button because life doesn't have one. (phones ring, wife/kids want your attention, nature calls...no tryhard bladder deficiency arguments pls.) Thanks to everyone who pointed out the "end-of-turn" dialog can serve as one.

[Reinhard]

"The grown up" "argument" is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard to justify the lack of a necessary feature.

[LadyJade90]

it seems like half the comments here are from people who haven't played the game because unless you're standing in front of an enemy you can literally just put the controller down at anytime and go that's why there's no pause. in the menus, in the command mode, and while moving and not withing range of an enemy the game doesn't progress until you do. unless you haven't played the game and are here complaining for a completely useless feature this shouldn't be hard to understand

[Darkhulk ʕ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°ʔ]

f10 stop game ?

[Sladze]

Next you'll be asking for a title screen button for the title screen.

You are asking for an oxymoron, it's a turn based game where you would have to DELIBERATELY choose to go into movement phase while in the line of sight of enemies to be in an instance where leaving the game unattended would yield you a bad outcome. In absolutely EVERY OTHER case the game can be left and returned to with no issues, and even if you did by chance activate movement phase and have to leave you can simply just aim or finish the turn and THEN do what you need to.

Originally posted by Reinhard:

"The grown up" "argument" is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard to justify the lack of a necessary feature.

the "Grown up" argument is completely justified, the only kind of person who could possibly even consider asking for such a fundamentally worthless addition to a game is someone who clearly doesn't have a developed brain (or a functioning one) there is no excuse for this level of absurdity.