Remove Pause from Hardcore

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Treboaten#3209 wrote:

i have 0 respect to anyone who is on hardcore league at this point.

So as expected you're on softcore, amirite?

So let me get this straight, just because one HC streamer is abusing the pause feature you want pause removed for everyone? Did you even think for a second when making this suggestion? Because frankly, it’s a stupid.

You don’t just punish thousands of players because of 1 person.

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himenoinu#2580 wrote:

Also, please stop asking for the game to be balanced and optimized around streamers. They are, afaik, not the majority of the playerbase.

This. I mean posting Quin69..like what would you expect from him? If players want to monkey some behavior of any big PoE streamer, let them do it and join the flock. It doesn't affect my gameplay and most of us don't care what they do. Streamers also mostly zoom on hardcore to get to maps in like one day, so they will use everything they can to pass through campaign, even pausing, on whatever gear they find and most meta synergies that don't require much gear either. Most of us does not play that way. We grind it out and make sure we can actually survive boss fights.

And I agree with the rest wanting for feature to stay as most of us can have variety of real life calls or emergencies during gameplay. Pause feature has been the smallest yet friendlies thing they could add for us, regular players and people.

During campaign and maps Np. I can go to town but let the portal stay then for entire duration. Also how would you solve it on longer boss fights since GGG tends to measure difficulty in bosses sponginess in later stages of game? What about trials? Or chimera in ultimatum that tends to spend half the day in air after just few hits? Most of us don't play like Ben to just 1 shot everything.

Instead of just asking for something to be changed/removed, think of presenting a solution along with it that won't affect the actual regular playerbase. Most of us don't copy cat and sneakpeak what streamers do, we are too busy playing our own game.

One solution I liked and was presented here, was to just blur or blacken screen on pause. Otherwise let it be, and play your game.

The pause is great.
The respawn at checkpoint is great too.
Last boss of sekhema doesn't allow pause (because he's a time master, got it?).
What do I do when I feel things are getting bad? Alt f4.

It's effectively the same as if I paused + respawn at checkpoint, but with the extra step that I have to relog into the game.

If you think pause and respawn removes from the "achievement" of climbing HC, you're free to think so.
You're also free to not use those functions in your own run.
If you think GGG should force everyone to play in an extreme HC way where there is no pause, no respawn, no dc protection etc, you're wrong and you're clearly overly invested in a game and need to find something better to do with your life.

"But muh ggg balance around pause" no they don't. If pause somehow became an issue with pinacle bosses in SC, they'll probably just add an obscuring veil during pause as suggested by other people in this thread.

Take a deep breath, play the game the way YOU want, BUT don't try to force people to play the way YOU want.