Can you pause this game if SP?

[Dragonsblade]

This a major requirement for me. So can this game be paused if playing solo?

[Kodiak412]

I don't believe so but I could be wrong. However if you want to pause you just go back to an area that you cleared of enemies and leave it there. From the vids it looks like a Souls style mechanic.

You can also go a crystal and wait there but like Souls the enemies will respawn. A little farming never hurts though. :)

[ArucarD . [ R ] .]

From the community streams done by SoFech and the majority of videos / sponsored streams from the event I have watched, I did not see any direct pausing from entering into a menu while being somewhere. Was the opposite, in the fact I saw people sifting through something and getting hit whilst in menu. If you look at the menu itself and see the left side, the world persists. No direct pause. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/451268621?t=00h16m44s Here Sacriel showcases what I mean.

[rogerfrmelo]

People who makes games which can't be paused never had children.

[U_F_N_M]

No, there is no hard pause for SP.

I have no idea why these people who never played the game are trying to answer questions here.

[MenacingDonut]

I use a little app called Universal Pause Button to do this. Works great in SP. By default it hooks up to your keyboard pause button. You just tap the button, the game freezes, and you can minimize the game to do other tasks. Life saver!
https://github.com/ryanries/UniversalPauseButton

[ServiusTheBear]

I feel not having a pause is not good. I shouldnt have to go running back to a place where I have cleared just so I can step away from the computer for a few mins. Its seriously stupid.

[Mythily]

Originally posted by ServiusTheBear:

I feel not having a pause is not good. I shouldnt have to go running back to a place where I have cleared just so I can step away from the computer for a few mins. Its seriously stupid.

I think resurrecting threads isn't good either xd

It doesn't have a pause cuz the game modes (offline and online) are shared when playing. That's why you can change the lobby on the fly and don't have to quit the game first.
Honestly it's not that much of an issue for me. I kill all the mobs in the vicinity, move back a bit and I can leave for 15 mins without dying. Enemies don't respawn once they're killed, unless you reset them at a checkpoint.

All the DS games behave in the same way btw.

[ServiusTheBear]

Perosnally If the comment is about the same issue best keep it in one area, better than creating a new thread of the same thing. Sharing online and offline is stupid idea in my view. These modes should be kept seperate. Never really played DS much really at all.