I'll elaborate in more detail: I want a working pause that actually and instantly pauses everything in the game. Hitting escape or entering turn based mode don't do that. The Divinity engine doesn't allow player controlled controlled pausing in this fashion. The developers have designed certain NPCs and activities to always remain active. Quitting out of the game is my only option to truly pause right now. I'm beginning to understand, though, that of the million+ players that BG3 EA has, less than ten of us see this as a problem. They never fixed it for the Divinity games and also refuse to allow modders to fix it. Apparently, only the tiniest fraction of us use pause in this way and would like to see the engine updated to allow it. If not in Larian's official forums, Steam forums, GOG forums, Beamdog forums, I don't know where this might get any real feedback. I guess that I'm kicking a dead horse at this point and the million+ other players are perfectly fine having no real way of pausing the game.