let us pause the game if we are alone

[Bananabob]

i got other stuff to do sometimes and id rather not waste 20min of gameplay because life keeps happening. If you are the only person in the lobby it should let you pause the game. Had to restart my first mission 3 times because i had things come up.

[Normarry]

A pause feature would kinda of ruin the entire point of it being a live service. While I think this topic is valid adding a pause isn't really a high concern when lower difficulty missions are short to begin with.

[Bananabob]

Other live service games have pause functionality when you are alone ex:warframe. Even then thats not really a valid argument against adding it.

Originally posted by Normarry:

adding a pause isn't really a high concern when lower difficulty missions are short to begin with.

Im not going to bother making my way to longer missions if it takes three attempts to get through one short mission.

There is literally no downside to doing this.

[Normarry]

I wouldn't consider it being a live service being a valid reason but I also dont think adding pause is that big of a priority especially when your game is open to being joined even if you set it to friends only.

I feel like their is more to just adding a pause feature than just simply adding pause.

[RubyCante]

They should add private/offline mode with the pause so people can just chill
DOUBT they will add it.. that JUICY LIVE SERVICE MONEY is talking against it

[Valhalla Awaits]

Democracy can't be paused.

[Chadwick Strongpants]

My guy it's an online game, you literally can't pause that.

[Marcus]

Adding a pause button is unrealistic in a game like this due to the server traffic in each play through. You would be holding a server slot and causing server traffic to sit there doing nothing. Most live service multiplayer games avoid coding in something like this. You're asking for potentially lots of extra dev time for a feature that would clog up servers.

Also there is a 15 min afk timer, if you're pausing for any kind of length you would in theory be booted.

I can only see this being a possibility if they add an offline mode in the future. Until then, I suggest focusing on main objectives only or setting aside 40 minute chunks of time.

[Normarry]

Like even then say there is a offline mode and pause it would defeat the entire point of a gamemaster which a core feature of their game that we have rarely seen due to them actually making sure people can actually play the game.

[Bananabob]

Originally posted by Copper Knight:

My guy it's an online game, you literally can't pause that.

warframe is an online game. and in that online game if you are alone it will pause

its a really simple concept

[Tantrumus]

how would an AFK timer work with being able to pause... so I'd say that aint happenin, even though you are alone, you are still occupying a sought after server slot.

The real solution would be to allow players that truly want single player to play in a single player mode with a fake live service that is just your local PC and a different progression of liberating planets. But they also dont want to entertain that thought because then too many people would take that option and remove progression from the multiplayer numbers being tracked so that will never happen.

The OTHER option is similar to how Elite Dangerous works. Universe/Progression/Objects all are shared between multi/single instances and both feed that instance that both share. Want to play single player you join as single player and will not encounter players but your progress and activity does feed the multiplayer universe.... problem with that is all it takes is cheaters on single player model to totally corrupt the MP service. So that prob will not happen either. Instead cheating will corrupt the MP from the MP instance HAHAHAH... sad but true.

[OneAmongOthers]

Originally posted by RubyCante:

They should add private/offline mode with the pause so people can just chill
DOUBT they will add it.. that JUICY LIVE SERVICE MONEY is talking against it

First game never had a pause either. Schedule time to play or accept that this is a live service game and you know what you are getting into.

[Cryptic]

agreed op

[Grumpy Old Guy]

I play almost entirely solo.

The game should have an offline mode and a pause option.

Every PVE game should have an offline mode and a pause option.

Saying cheaters would ruin the game if they added this is silly as the game already has cheaters in it.

[Noctover]

The amount of work it would take to implement a system just to accommodate a person playing the game not as intended to "pause", would be a colossal waste of time and resources.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

Originally posted by Noctover:

The amount of work it would take to implement a system just to accommodate a person playing the game not as intended to "pause", would be a colossal waste of time and resources.

lol no it's not. The game already facilitates solo missions it wouldn't be hard to implement at all. If it's so hard to do why can you do it in deeprock and that game is almost identical to this one.