Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General In it's current state, does the BG3 engine support a full pause?

Good day! Last I had checked, the BG3 engine wasn't capable of supporting a proper and complete pause, even from the mod community. I'm wondering if it's evolved since then at all? Most of it was irrelevant or cosmetic, but, as a single player, there had still been quite a few things that happened in real time that weren't possible to pause properly. Has the engine improved so that a hard pause is possible now? Would it be possible for community modders, at least, to enable a proper full pause for the single player experience?

No change in EA and no news that I’ve heard, so I think this is one we’ll need to continue waiting and seeing on. Not that I’m expecting a fundamental change on this front, but you never know!

Nope.
There is no such thing.

But you dont really need it.
Many people wants it, mostly bcs its just something they are used to have, but thats all.

If you need to run off sudently > simply start turn based, the game will freeze ...

Other than that? Noting happens without your action in this game ... and if it does there is nothing you can do about it, until your turn starts, or you get a reaction ... and thats once again where whole world is waiting for you.

The only let down (last time i checked at least) is that not whole world in actualy frozen when you start turn based mode ... and things with duration (often even spells, but mainly AoE effects like fire) keep going and dissapears after certain amount of real time, rather than certain amount of turns ...
I reported this repeatedly, so far i have seen no progress on the issue. :-/

Disappointing, but thank you both for your honesty. Along the same topic, how are cutscenes handled now? Are they possible to pause now? Or if I get called away very suddenly, which happens a lot on my end, will I end up having to reload an older save to view them?

There is no way to pause anything ...

BUT!

There is log, where you can read whole conversation while you were gone ...
Obviously its not as good as being present, but still its something.

Also, even bigger butt! ( )

We had promised option to quick-save during conversations ...
So, maybe that would help?

Pretty sure cutscenes aren’t pausable, though admit I’ve not now played much for a while as I’ve been trying to save myself for the full game so I’m not as sure as I should be. I agree non-pausing scenes can be a real pain, though at least in EA I can’t think of any long cutscenes not interspersed with dialogue prompts past the opening credits.