I've yet to make it out of the tutorial area yet. With all of the combat in the background, it's made it impossible for me to properly test turn based mode. I just can't enter it, so am unable to even use the limited pausing option that it has. I'm also curious if rushing through everything, with zero explorations, would allow me to find and participate in any of the background combat. So far, I'm just finding a lot of corpses.