ONLY controller users being able to pause blights when building/upgrading is REALLY stupid.

I get that using a controller means giving up a level of precision, but granting controller users complete immunity from death when building or upgrading towers is flat-out unfair to keyboard and mouse players.

When upgrading towers with a mouse, you are completely relinquishing the primary method used to move your character in order to do so. If we had a separate input method for building or upgrading towers that didn’t hijack our movement controls, this wouldn’t be a problem. But as it stands, we don’t.

Give keyboard and mouse users the same pause functionality as controllers when building or upgrading towers.

The number of times I’ve been obliterated in a Blight encounter because I’m scrambling to upgrade towers, only to eat a random cross-map one-shot, is beyond infuriating. Sure, you can try clicking to move and then sneak in a build or upgrade while your character’s pathing, but it’s clunky, frustrating, and a nightmare to click on moving GUI elements under pressure. God forbid you misclick and are now moving towards the tower instead of interacting with it.

I don’t want to use a controller. I don’t want to get one-shot while building. And I really don’t want to be left thinking, “If I’d just used a controller, I’d still be alive.”

This change creates a clear advantage that pressures keyboard and mouse players to switch to controllers for juiced Blight content, which feels like a punishment for sticking with our preferred input method. No one should be punished or disadvantaged to the point where they feel they need to change their input method.

Please reconsider this decision.

I've completely forgotten to mention that not only does your game pause with a controller, you also have the ability to navigate to other towers and interact in any way you'd like all while the game stays paused. How are we just giving this clear advantage and straight-up quality of life change to controllers and not keyboard & mouse users?

"Attempting to build or upgrade a Blight Tower now pauses the game when using a Controller. While paused you are able to navigate between Blight Towers and perform any build or upgrade actions."

Personally I would like to pause the game whenever i want with a hotkey. There are things in game that require you to stop and read what they do, but often map progress is on a timer and you want to clear as fast as possible.

Really would like to have an ability to just hit a hotkey and pause ANY time i want, not just with ESC (and having HUGE menu overlay over things i want to read).