Opening the Menu in Multiplayer while moving (bug/oversight?)

If you pause the game or open your inventory while in single player, the game pauses and nothing happens; cool, no issues.

If you are playing in multiplayer, however, you will keep moving in the same direction indefinitely with the menu up.

Pair this with the fact that you can't see your health or character in-world from the pause menu and well...it means that you actually have no idea it's happening until you:
-Take damage (if you notice),
-Die; or
-Leave the menu extremely disoriented on the other side of the map.

This has been in the game since EA launch and I figured this would've been reported and fixed since I found it in my first 5 minutes of playing multiplayer and made a mental note of it since I'm a hardcore player.

Having to ensure you have completely stopped all movements before opening the menu is not great, and even then, who knows if you aren't moving in the menu since you can't even check.

Surely this is an oversight/bug since pausing for multiplayer was disabled right?

This happens on both PS5 and PS5 Pro; can't say for Xbox/PC but probably there too.
Interestingly, I have also had this happen once when i opened up the sanctum interface in first ascendency but was not able to replicate it.

I loved this bc when i had to run far i could just use this as an auto run lol

The auto run doesn't get you far since you'll get stuck on something and you won't even know if you get stuck on something.
AFK righteous fire could be pretty funny though when it gets added.

I think it has to be one or the other between visibility of your character in the menu OR no auto run in multiplayer. This is clearly an oversight/unintended side effect when multiplayer was added.

Personally i find the current character/inventory screen just pulls you out of the game and isn't a good fit after the old system in poe1, but for solo it's kinda cool since everything is actually paused.

Thats very true, as a dad of 3 and having a wife that needs me every time i touch my controller i really love the pause game. For me thats been a game changer and is amazing. But i do see them fixing that auto run bug very soon.