Pause the game

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Player3000
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Pause the game

Post by Player3000 »

I have just one question. How can you pause the game? It used to be made simply on the menu, but this version runs the game on you?
I've tried every possible key combinations, but found nothing.

PS: Sorry for the bad translation from Google, I am from Germany.

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Post by beedee »

You can't currently pause the game.

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Post by Sleipnir »

Pausing will be implemented in a future version of OpenRA, but is not a priority so it will not be done soon.

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Post by Player3000 »

Why is it not a priority, there are many players who play for hours at a stretch without going to the toilet to smoke or eat ???
Of course, a memory feature would be nice too, but I think a pause function is useful in any case.

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The game is focused on multiplayer at the moment, you can't pause a multiplayer game.

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Post by Player3000 »

I am speaking also on the skirmish mode against several computer opponents, there would pause and save useful.

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Post by riderr3 »

I agree. with pausing/saving function it will be much better 8)

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Post by rb10c »

I think we should wait for the skirmish mode to actually come out first...

If there were a feature to pause a multiplayer game, even vs computers, it could probably be exploited against real players.

So, I have a suggestion. Put your computer to sleep. That will pause the game, but, will run double time until you make up time lost. It is paused, but hey.

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Post by chrisf »

We could support pausing in both MP and SP -- the AOE series does MP pausing, and lets any player unpause. It works reasonably well

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