when this game can pause just like other game
Just tell your mom its pvp online game and it cant be paused
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if you’re playing with other players it generally can’t be paused
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HotS has SC2 game paused functionality but it doesn’t work outside of custom gsmes.
Also it will automatically pause itself if you are playing solo vs AI with no humans
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But Dinner is Ready!!!
1v1 in other games can be paused, and over ridden, but don’t do this to a 5v5 game.
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In a 5v5 game, if pause functionality was implemented in all game modes, what is the probability of a having some toxic doodoohat abusing it in an average game? When you figure that out, you also know why it’s only for premades and not randos.
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During tournaments, pauses do happen.
Usually each player has one, or maybe two, also restricted by team.
Typical problem is, when do you use it - you could maliciously try to mess up someone’s combo.
Usually pauses are used when someone disconnects. Meaning, they could be automated.
It could be counted as a soft (partial) leave. Using it a lot puts you in leaver queue.
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game has existed in public for 6 years and many people still dont seem to know the pause feature exists though its disabled outside customs
boggles the mind to read the same replies every thread saying it doesnt exist in hots
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Isn’t it a bit selfish to pause the game for one single person’s behaviour, where 9 other players have to wait until you’re ready?
Indeed, and it would just lead to more grief and frustration. The OP asking for this would probably be one of the first people back to complain about it, if they got their wish.
I wouldnt be surprised that those tournament pauses still involve a delay, and also first announce it to the enemy team so they can react to the pause aswel. Interupting mid combo is then very unlikely to happen.
But in any PvP game, with such features its always important to see how it gets abused. I know that in some 1v1 games you can initiate 3 pauses in a match (which if the match fully completed takes about 22 minutes), each pause only lasts 30 seconds and after that automaticly resumes. After pausing 3 times you simply do get the pause interface, but it wont pause the game.
In hots, if players are given 1 pause of 30 seconds, it can in theory take away 5 minutes per match. And yet that 30 seconds is often not enough to get someone to rejoin in time anyway. Even if all 4 members of the team do pause, its still 2 minutes which in the problem cases is still not enough.
This tells me that even if we have a player controlled pause, its not going to do enough.
The only way a pause can work is if someone disconnected before the match started, and the game automaticly waits a certain time (while players of the same team can vote to continue). But to me, that is not going to be helpful enough, as i suspect most players to vote to continue anyway (unless they know the teammate is busy rejoining).
This also helps a bit because there isnt a lot of replay to be processed for the rejoining player aswel, and can be quite a speed up on that part.
Hopefully never.
You can pause Overwatch?
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It would be a really bad idea. Dont take me back to old Warcraft 3 games where someone would pause the game for no reason 3 times in a raw just to troll you.
Pause should only be a singleplayer figture really. If you are playing multiplayer you should not be able to pause a game no matter what.
If every player needs to pause a game vs real players casue he have to go to the toilet or open the door cause someone knocked his door then people would rage quit for wasting thier time.
If you somehow know you will get interrupted by real life stuff then you should not play multiplayer at all.
Then a singleplayer game would fit you better if you are someone who has limited time to play or has real life stuff interrupting you 24/7.
Other players did not log into a game just to play with someone who afk a lot.
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Do not que if you can not commit to at least 25min for a game, that is assuming it lasts that long.
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You can’t blame them, its a small minority of people who use custom games, I go custom games haunted mines from time to time for meme reasons and this feature has always existed and used when someone got themselves in a problem.
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For all intents and purposes it doesn’t exist and I don’t mind it doesn’t
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