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Pause the game

Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:08 pm
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.

Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:16 pm
by beedee
You can't currently pause the game.

Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:35 pm
by Sleipnir
Pausing will be implemented in a future version of OpenRA, but is not a priority so it will not be done soon.

Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:29 pm
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.

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:04 am
by beedee
The game is focused on multiplayer at the moment, you can't pause a multiplayer game.

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:08 am
by Player3000
I am speaking also on the skirmish mode against several computer opponents, there would pause and save useful.

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:26 am
by riderr3
I agree. with pausing/saving function it will be much better 8)

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:02 am
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.

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:57 pm
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