This game is unplayable without a pause feature.

At least, it is if you're an adult with children or other "drop everything and deal with" responsibilities. Also, if you ever want to do something like...alt-tab to talk to people online, or read wikis.

Walling in is not an option if you're in the middle of fighting monsters when your kid starts crying. Setting up a bed and torches is not an option when you need to deal with something, right now, that may take a long time and you don't want to starve to death. Saving and quitting, or teleporting to your ship, is not an option if you're busy deep underground and want to stay where you left off.

There's a reason I play single player games instead of multiplayer ones: It's so I can pause without disrupting anyone else.

Absolute disrecommend of this game to everyone I know until there's a single-player pause feature. The lack of one is pathologically ridiculous.

 

I agree with that, even thought that i don't think that it is the most important featuresto add

 

It really needs to be an option for singleplayer.

 

Well i guess that would be useful but i am usually underground and pretty safe when those situations come up

 

YES. yes yes yes. out of all of the things your game needs the pause button is by far and away the most important. a single player game without pause is insane - i dont play multiplayer games because i cant 100% devote my attention to the game a lot of the time, and i would love to play your game more and at the moment the lack of pause means i can play it a lot less than i would like. (actually, this is my first post, i joined this forum just so i could make this suggestion)

 

If you're on planet, box yourself in a bunch of dirt. Nothing in the game can currently touch you, so it's great for a quick afk.

You can pause the game by returning to your ship. There are no hostile to worry about. Sleep in a bed and hunger will not deplete.

 

And hope that whatever it is that calls for your attention can wait for the 15 seconds it takes to do this.

Then when you get back, you get to spend 10 minutes trying to get back to where you were.

Seriously... This doesn't need to be argued against. 99% of single player games can be paused. It would be nice if this one could be too.

 

There are many ways. Just a box and possibly some torches is the simplest. It is in no way unplayable. Maybe annoying but all you lose when you die is 25% of your pixels and some time getting back to your position

 

CHIRP!

+1

A pause feature would be nice for singleplayer, yes.

 

Could have said it in a nicer way, but real life comes before games. Would be nice to not have to lose progress to take care of real life.

 

Well maybe it does but i don't agree this game is unplayable without it

 

I agree.

This. The game is not "unplayable" without it. unplayable implies you can't make progression in any way, shape, or form. That would imply you have to tend to real life every 2 minutes or less, in which, you shouldn't even be playing games between such tiny gaps. There is a time and a place for play.

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Still, it would be nice to have a pause feature.

 

Surrounding yourself with dirt takes 2 seconds, TOPS.

 

What is your argument against a pause?

If it is simply that you don't want it, then noted. Others clearly do.

If you have a reason that a pause would be bad in your opinion, state it.

 

Even if the TC didn't say it in the most diplomatic way, it's true that there isn't a good reason why (in Single Player) hitting the escape key can't pause the game and open the menu.

 

Though I disagree with the tone of this post's title or the implication that it is unplayable, I completely agree with the poster's argument about the pause functionality. There are many legitimate reasons to request pause functionality, especially for people who have significant personal responsibilities.

The current system is not unplayable by any stretch of the imagination however. Considering that save and quit will instantly teleport the player back to his ship from any location, it is not a matter of some insurmountable barrier to play, but simply an unwanted disadvantage to players who simply don't wish to leave their current progress.

 

+1 for this feature. In the mean time, maybe look into solutions that can freeze processes? Be warned however, as I noticed before finding the faster mining mod when using cheat engine to speed hack the game slightly that the game tends to get unstable.

 

I can see the reason some people would not want a pause feature, but in my opinion they are pretty baseless.
Of course the game needs a pause feature in singleplayer

 

I would support a pause feature for single player.

 

I don't mean to be mean or a jerk, but did you just learn how to use pathologically in a sentence? This game is not unplayable because there is no pause feature. The game is in Beta, late early stage Beta. If you took the time to read the launcher you would know this. The amount of time it took you to type your post is longer than it takes to find out the game is still in a Beta state.

Now, on to the meat of your post: Yes, the game certainly needs a pause feature for single player. I'd like to see a pause feature like that seen in Terraria, where you have the option to allow the game to pause when you access your inventory.

Again, my previous statement was not meant to be derogatory to you as a person, but to the way you made your statement, and the content of the statement you made.