Game Paused

[vague prairie]

I noticed when i pres esc to go in the menu the game continue's (atleast in prologue) and i have a suggestion of pausing the game when u press esc so u wont take damage or miss lines from npc's

[thick storm]

This is difficult to do as the game is coded for multiplayer. We are looking into other solutions for when solo players need to AFK.

[golden trench]

Add a pause button to the menu? No need to worry about single/multiplayer, giving the players the opportunity to pause the game may be useful regardless.

[thick storm]

When you say pause, you mean freezing time to avoid danger etc?

[golden trench]

Yeah, freezing the game entirely, so people can step away from the keyboard if needed.

[thick storm]

Yeah, so that's harder for us to do than you might think because of how the game is coded for multiplayer.
Not being dismissive, we want to solve the AFK problem and we have other ideas for how to do it.

[midnight helm]

I think this is a great idea for Solo players, but multiplayer is a different thing, if someone needs to go AFK their team mates can take over and 'keep safe' as Groove mentions it can be complex to build in, that is why many games do not feature such things, but hey its a great idea!

Having played only the demo, the game is also seem very generous with downtime, so it might not be needed.

As an alternative to this maybe they could do what Void Crew does and allow for upgrades/planning/breaks to be done while in transit( with a chance of interdiction 😉 )

[dire cedar]

On the topic of pausing the game, maybe preventing weapon fire up-on clicking into the game from being alt+tabbed out would be nice

[calm fox]

I’d think similar to It takes two or Split fiction where one player can initiate a pause like in a single player game and it freezes everyone till that person gets back (I can see the griefing potential though)

[midnight helm]

I'd say this would have to be a host only setting, but allow players to vote for it to be unpaused maybe

[calm fox]

Host only definitely works and so does the vote

[dense eagle]

Just wanted to say I too really want the ability to pause the game. I want it to just be possible when playing solo though. Realize it might be hard but hopefull it can be done at some time. Really enjoying the demo

[thick storm]

We'll see what we can do 🫡

[modern ledge]

Maybe, like void crew just added, resumeable runs while jumping

[night grove]

Something like in GTA Online maybe ? You cannot interact with the world and the world cant interact with you. I dont how hard thats to code but you wouldnt have to freeze the game.

[noble stratus]

Just code a cloak device that works for x minutes that may be crafted once in any level

And it works as long as you do not move the ship

[golden trench]

But that doesn't solve the problem at all. It works in GTA Online because it prevents other players from interacting with you. The problem here is the NPCs (and director) keep trying to kill your crew and it doesn't care if somebody is AFK.

Disappearing the whole ship, maybe, but what if there's people not on the ship when you need to go AFK? You can't control when someone comes to the door after all.