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Pretty much title. It is annoying when you are playing some online co-op game (where time matters) and you cannot pause it. Server pause option would amazing in case you have to deal something in real life. I found this issue annoying in Peak and most farming games.

Stardew Valley has this to pause game in online and I hope more games would add this option.

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As long as it's communicated amongst the participants. Yes! If anyone could just pause it because they wanna go see a movie now or make a baby? NO!

Solution: everyone in a sessions needs to enable this. So a friends-group can actually take a break for a tinkle. Or that everyone has to enter the menu or such and then the game pauses.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago

Just allow it for preformed groups

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm hooked on Nightreign right now. It would be pretty nice if there was a special pause ping you could do that paused the game if the other two players agreed with reply pings.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

Pausing in StarCraft allowed any player to pause, and any player to unpause. Additionally, each player could only pause a finite number of times (like 5 per game). I think this could work in nightreign.

The hard part is that there's no chat in nightreign, so someone will pause and you have no idea if it's legit or they're just griefing.