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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (4 children)

There's an app for that!

It's called UniversalPauseButton (no link because on phone, but you can Google it). It basically makes the PAUSE/BREAK button pause any active process. Press it again to unpause.

Will likely cause issues with online games, but if you're playing offline or in single-player, like Witcher 3, Remnant, Baldurs Gate 3, etc it works wonders.

Signed, a new parent who often has to go comfort a waking baby at night.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I remember when I was a kid my buddy and I were raving about some game because you couldn't pause it. It was so cool. Emersive. You really had to make good decisions with you inventory, etc etc.

Today I'll just turn the game off if it tries that bullshit lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The Witcher 3 NextGen has been pretty good in this regard. You can already pause in combat, or in long dialogue trees and even in cutscenes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Link here: https://github.com/ryanries/UniversalPauseButton

There's also https://github.com/Merrit/nyrna

which supports linux, and I believe takes a slightly different approach on windows so where one app might not work for one game you could try the other

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Wow thank you, I knew something like that existed but I thought it was a per game hack/mod not an universa solution. l