Originally Posted by VincentNZ

Yeah sure, but it takes awfully long and you are bound to the limitations of the already slow combat. In any normal game you would just pause, position your people with one click and initiate combat. The BG3 system is cumbersome, unintuitive and slow. It is basically the worse workaround to a problem that does not need to exist in the first place.

You outline an ambush situation, and in such you are pretty much guaranteed to go first/surprise the enemy and then control the time-flow/progression of combat. Alternatively, you are engaged in conversation with the enemy and are free to position your other companions in real time. Either way party members not yet engaged in combat/conversation are free to take a trip to Hell and back in real-time before you progress/enter combat. Not sure I understand your problem, or are we playing different games?

That said, a proper pause button should be easy to implement even though the need for it is much more miniscule than critics make it out to be here.