Pause in Single Player

Pausing needs to be in the game. There is absolutely no game mechanic/fun factor/challenge B.S that should prevent a simple pause button. Make the screen black I don't care, but I like to play perma-death and I don't like to save/quit when I dig too deep... but without a pause button it's getting retarded.

Also, there needs to be an option to always show the hunger meter... or at least always show it when YOUR GOING TO DIE FROM HUNGER. It is so incredibly annoying to beam down to a planet and immediately starve on a perma-death character just because I don't have a sound card or a pause button.

 

Sure, I agree, there's no real reason for the hunger bar to disappear, but not having a sound card is on you. You can't blame Chucklefish for not designing the game to play perfectly on incomplete rigs.

 

I did post immediately after dieing that way, so it was a bit biased.... but as far as I can tell, hunger is the only mechanic that will kill you that is only notified by a sound effect. Tempeture is always visibile when it will kill you as will air.

 

massive thread necro but i don't even care

how was this not included in the big stable update? not having a pause feature for single player was fine when it hit early access, but a year later its unacceptable. was really excited to get back into the game but now apparently I have to wait for another patch which for all we know could take another 11 months. Chucklefish I really want to be on your side but stuff like this makes it impossible.

we shouldn't have to beg on your forums for you to implement a feature pretty much every single player game ever has

 

Oh quit your whining. Not like Food is an issue for you people anymore. You can go AFK or alt tab as much as you want.

 

Way to be constructive by calling a basic feature request "whining". And no, you can't go AFK or alt tab as much as you want, because the game still runs in the background. Any random creatures that show up can still kill you. Or what if you need to pause during a boss fight/deep underground/in a dungeon? Or if you're on a planet with meteors, or any of a dozen other hazards you can't leave your character unattended in.

I shouldn't have to justify my request for a feature every single player game in the last 20 years has had.

 

You can cover your self in dirt to protect yourself against most things. That is what I do when I need to hit the washroom. Meteors could be a problem, but usually its not hard to get a little ways underground. Pause would be nice though, maybe they'll put it in the final release.

 

This won't work in dungeons, which are the place you would most want to protect yourself. Until you beat the dungeon you can't place any blocks, so there is no way to make sure you can't be hurt in a dungeon, making going AFK for any amount of time very dangerous. This is especially infuriating since dungeons reset if you die, so you lose all progress if you go AFK in an unsafe area. Pausing would alleviate all this.

 

Ah, I didn't know that. I haven't gotten that far in the new update yet.

 

Don't be an asshole.
Wish I had more to say than that to make this a constructive post.
Add a freakin' proper pause, Chucklefish

 

Well, in all fairness, pausing has become... less important as of late.

I mean, the missions, you can usually escape to a safe zone, someplace you've cleared before, and hole up where enemies can't reach you, then go do a thing.

But I suppose it'd be nice for emergency need-to-pause now situations... dog barfing on the carpet or something...

 

Every single player game should have a pause option, without one a game cannot truly be complete.

 

Well, Dark Souls or any of those related games didn't have a pause function... But those are, uhm... Hardcore games?

... and I don't see Starbound as a "Hardcore" survival game or whatever...
A pause fucntion would be nice, for Single Player, of course.

 

Yeah, I agree. Games like Dark Souls are made to be hard in the way that you can only save the progression at specific locations within the game itself. Although I see Starbound as a more casual game and in that sense it would make sense to pause the game at any point in time that you want in single player mode, the same way that you could save the progression at any point in time while playing.

 

You must not be a married adult with kids. The only time I can sit back and have even 30 minutes free of interuptions is.... well never. I am constantly having to step away because of the kids or wife in an instant's notice and most times I come back 5-10 minutes later dead. Even thought I'd be safe one time in my house when I ran out and came back to a meteor shower having wiped it out and killed me. There isn't time to spend 5 minutes walking back or hopping up caves (or even walling yourself in) in parenthood. Ever tried telling your wife to wait 5 minutes? Mine has threatened to flip the breaker before!
I would also play at work (Being in IT ) but can't since I only have a few seconds to hide it when people walk up. 95% of the places I could be at any given time in it will kill me if I cant pause it before minimizing. Its a long trek back.

For Busy ADULTS playing a *casual game* solo, a pause is a necessity.
But this has been a moot point for almost 2.5 years now that I doubt they will ever help us on.

 

I used to suspend Starbound (suspend the process running the game with programs like process explorer) when i had to afk and then resume it when i was back. But that crashed the game many times.

Today i realized i can just type "/admin" so i can't take damage while im not there. U cant retype it when ure back (Pressing the up arrrow is fast)