Co-op partner pause menu
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Arglaar
Nitpicking Bastard
Most likely it's done the way it is to prevent the games from going out of sync while paused.
As well as if the partner wants to do a save, you want the game to be in a static state, not constantly changing.
(i.e. pausing the game stops everything from moving and leads to much safer saves)
As well as if the partner wants to do a save, you want the game to be in a static state, not constantly changing.
(i.e. pausing the game stops everything from moving and leads to much safer saves)
Actually, that's very reasonable now. Even with configurations, you don't want the screen to keep moving while you change AA and so on, causes graphical glitches and crashes.
Problem in SR2 is that, when someone needs to use the phone, it has to be paused.
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[V] Ramius
Volition Staff
As others have mentioned this is not practical for technical reasons (and there's no place where this functionality is exposed to something modders could access). We did try to make sure that, at a minimum, you weren't prevented from also accessing the pause menu while your partner was in that menu (lots of great timing bugs for that).
However, it really shouldn't be all that invasive to your play sessions. Everything that is gameplay and require a lot of access should be in the HUB (which doesn't pause the game in coop) and if you or your partner are manually saving all the time you probably don't need to. SR4 autosaves happen a lot. I would be curious to know why they're bringing up the pause menu so often that you find it to be such a problem.
However, it really shouldn't be all that invasive to your play sessions. Everything that is gameplay and require a lot of access should be in the HUB (which doesn't pause the game in coop) and if you or your partner are manually saving all the time you probably don't need to. SR4 autosaves happen a lot. I would be curious to know why they're bringing up the pause menu so often that you find it to be such a problem.
[V] Ramius
Volition Staff
You don't have to take turns bringing up the pause menu. It should also indicate you can also press whatever button to access the pause menu. It did on the consoles as far as I recall. Regardless of what the text is, if you see the "Press Tab to Quit" screen, you should be able to access the pause menu as well and then when your partner exits the pause menu he'll be stuck at that pause screen you were just at.
The two different screens are to indicate the players actual intentions. If we immediately placed both players into the full pause menu we wouldn't be able to easily determine when both players desired to go back into gameplay since once the other player was forced into the menu who knows what they might have decided to start doing when the first player decides to exit it. And if either player could exit it for both players, you would run into cases where it was impossible to kick an annoying quickmatch partner.
The two different screens are to indicate the players actual intentions. If we immediately placed both players into the full pause menu we wouldn't be able to easily determine when both players desired to go back into gameplay since once the other player was forced into the menu who knows what they might have decided to start doing when the first player decides to exit it. And if either player could exit it for both players, you would run into cases where it was impossible to kick an annoying quickmatch partner.