No active pause!

[markakeen]

I was just trying to decide whether to just buy the base game, or to opt for the complete version, and then I saw that there is no active pause...!

Why on earth did the developers decide to not let us pause in a single player game, and play how we like to play???

I am a disabled person, and play games 100% using the mouse and on-screen keyboard (for shortcuts). It is usually more awkward and clumsy for me to interact with games, but with active pause that is no big deal - it just takes a little more of my time. But now, I don't think I can buy this, and it's such a disappointment. :(

[raynay]

There is a halftime option, and the enemy is scaleable so it aint really like playing starcraft etc, but sure the option would be welcome! on epic games store is a free version until 23.03 so u might have a look to decide.

[markakeen]

Thanks for this. I registered with the Epic store to download the free trial, but it kept failing when linking my UBISOFT account. After 30m or so I gave up! Thanks again.

[raynay]

had a similar issue with egs and ubi, switching the browser did the trick f me

[Nachuuu]

Heya when you play on normal pace, the game is quite slow paced and as mentioned it is not so much that you need to keep up 100% of the time, when I played the game I tend to go afk every now and then since the game allows for that without a problem.

The Ubisoft launcher is absolutely horrible, so think twice about the game if that is a dealbreaker to you!

[Rektor]

ever pressed p while ingame? its exactly what u look for

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by Rektor:

ever pressed p while ingame? its exactly what u look for

No, it's not.

[Felicity]

Originally posted by Rektor:

ever pressed p while ingame? its exactly what u look for

They want to be able to still build and stuff while paused. The pause button ingame makes you unable to do anything at all, it may as well be pressing escape for the menu. For a game about carefully planning stuff out you would think this would be an obvious addition.

[Rektor]

well i guess in this case, it never even crossed my mind wanting to have something like that, my apologies

[kubluu]

With the upcoming stamp feature it should be possible to prepare all the building layouts offline.
I think this will speed up building tremendously.

[Bloodartist]

I am more of a turn-based strategy person myself, and I agree the lack of active pause from single player is a major omission. Its the biggest reason why I am still hesitant about buying this game, even though it looks otherwise great and even at 75% discount.

I generally enjoy carefully pondering my move and plan buildings in my own time. The rushed feeling that a regular RTS gives is not for me. An RTS with an active pause is still very enjoyable, like Stellaris has.

[schorsch_morsch]

Originally posted by Felicity:

Originally posted by Rektor:

ever pressed p while ingame? its exactly what u look for

They want to be able to still build and stuff while paused. The pause button ingame makes you unable to do anything at all, it may as well be pressing escape for the menu. For a game about carefully planning stuff out you would think this would be an obvious addition.

it is the same in all the anno games i have. slomo for building and p for bathroom.

[ArgoBletchley]

Originally posted by schorsch_morsch:

it is the same in all the anno games i have. slomo for building and p for bathroom.

I don't think that's the case in 2070

[Rasluka]

Originally posted by Bloodartist:

I am more of a turn-based strategy person myself, and I agree the lack of active pause from single player is a major omission. Its the biggest reason why I am still hesitant about buying this game, even though it looks otherwise great and even at 75% discount.

I generally enjoy carefully pondering my move and plan buildings in my own time. The rushed feeling that a regular RTS gives is not for me. An RTS with an active pause is still very enjoyable, like Stellaris has.

I felt the same way, but after playing you really don't need an active pause, the game is very slow paced and forgiving. There is a slow-mo option which feels like enough. There's plenty of difficulty options too to slow the pace down even more if you want.

It actually flows quite well without a pause.
In other similiar games i'll run on fastest speed, pause, fastest speed, pause. but here it's quite nice to just let it run on normal speed and still have time to do things.

[BladeofSharpness]

It depends if you play against good AIs or if you prefer to play alone or with punchbags.

[gmsh1964]

+1 on Active Pause,at least for the Anno's to come.