Indepth analysis on why Tactical Pause is the worst mistake ever

[Warren]

Bear with Dictator Warren, amiable pre-buyer, you surrounded of faith, imbued with well stored entusiasm, once more through the Twilight Zone, where dreams become reality, and reality becomes as relative as a professional review in the eyes of a fanboy.

Now, you may ask, why would tactical pause be bad? It allows the player to stop and ponder his options during a combat otherwise frenetic and hard to control, right?

Well, gentle reader, you are never been so much farther from reality.

In fact, real life combats don't have tactical pause. Combatants don't have the option to freeze time to think about their next move with ease. Combat skill is by definition the ability to adapt strategy by the moment, in a matter of seconds. A real tactical player should be able to think fast and memorize combat commands and controls in order to do it.

Otherwise, combat becomes tedious, fragmented and simply unreal. It's no more a fight, it's a chess game. The player is basically cheating, because the CPU cannot pause at its own will to adapt and change strategies, and find itself at a disavantage.

And to be absolutely clear, even a compromise as the notorious bullet-time can't really replace the nerves of steel, coolness and adaptability skills that are paramount for real tacticians.

Real tactic players don't use pause, even when 1 vs 10, as they don't play turn based games.

Greedfall devs should remove tactical pause in order to do a favour to their gamers, forcing them, for their own good, to learn on their own skin how a real combat should be played and deservedly won.

Obviously, all this would be combined with the inability to save, but we already have treated this argument in a previous lesson.

[khaychi]

Postat inițial de HYST JDM12983:

You just don't shut up do you Warren; talk about full of yourself.

Stay calm. Those people and their attenton wh0ring will be forgotten the second the game launches. Steam subforums are full of bs in the weeks and days b4 launch from ppl which never intended to buy the game in the first place.

But at least it keeps us entertained until game launch. You really can't make such topics up.

[Warren]

Postat inițial de khay✨chi:

Postat inițial de HYST JDM12983:

You just don't shut up do you Warren; talk about full of yourself.

Stay calm. Those people and their attenton wh0ring will be forgotten the second the game launches.

I have the feeling you and me have slightly different visions about how launch day is gonna be.

I guess we just have to wait.

[r3b0rN]

Postat inițial de Warren:

I guess we just have to wait.

I don't think you're capable of doing that. But one can always hope.

[Warren]

Postat inițial de r3b0rN:

Postat inițial de Warren:

I guess we just have to wait.

I don't think you're capable of doing that. But one can always hope.

I'm actively waiting.

[Purpleetea]

Postat inițial de Warren:

Postat inițial de r3b0rN:

I don't think you're capable of doing that. But one can always hope.

I'm actively waiting.

Are you just waiting to post a bad review? Are you waiting just to ♥♥♥♥♥ about it?

[Warren]

Postat inițial de Purpleetea:

Postat inițial de Warren:

I'm actively waiting.

Are you just waiting to post a bad review? Are you waiting just to ♥♥♥♥♥ about it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJniq9KuDAQ

[Mitth'raw'nuruodo]

Yes! This! So much this!

Tactical pause is for losers who prefer to rely on thought and intelligence instead of mindless muscle memory. That is totally the opposite of what hardcore gaming is all about.

[Purpleetea]

So many hardcore losers here. If you want mindless hardcore action go play God of War or Gears 5. Leave intellectual games alone cause your brain is to small to handle it.

[[Wahr] Eogard]

Warren is the new Kevin

[Fortuna]

Tactical Pause is like what most isekai manga characters do in the middle of fights.

[Warren]

Postat inițial de Fortuna:

Tactical Pause is like what most isekai manga characters do in the middle of fights.

You mean before or while they are screaming the name of their upcoming special move?

[Blowfeld]

Here is a thing. It gives you options. You don't want them, don't use them. Same with savegames.

Can not control your impulses and use it anyway? Your problem, buddy.

EDIT: Saw too late that it is that person, seeking for attention again. When will I learn not to feed the trolls....

[Bastila Shan]

I played kotor and tactical pause was good, only a prepubescent teen would think otherwise.