You can pause Elden Ring with some menu navigation

Change during the week and there Elden ringAt launch, talk of its troubles has taken the same weary course as that of all its FromSoftware predecessors. The biggest bone of contention seems to be the player’s inability to pause the game, but turns out it’s you can Break Elden ring, no mods required. It just takes a bit of finesse.

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dedicated Elden ring, Dark Soulsand other souls-like games, brave Tainted that need a break but can’t fast travel to a checkpoint can simply navigate to their inventory and ask the game to explain its menus. Similar to Elden ring‘s early tutorials freezes the world around you and protects you from all the idiots who are just trying to cut you into ribbons.

Elden ringfor better or worse, is a continuation of the legacy of FromSoftware, which was founded in the 1994s Koenigsfeld and then officially did his whole thing with 2009 demons souls. Despite arriving amidst a sea of ​​tutorial-heavy open-world adventures, Elden ring

don’t hold your hand It gives very few clues as to how something works and instead lets you figure that out for yourself. As such, newcomers will bang their heads against its tough exterior.

However, the lack of a pause option is a little different. While most complaints about FromSoftware’s formula make me roll my eyes, I understand where people are coming from when they say they’d like a way to take an instant break from the action. And it’s not as if FromSoftware would be totally averse to such a feature, either: 2019 Sekiro: Shadows die twice

, arguably the most difficult game in the studio’s modern lineup, allowed players to pause whenever they wanted. It can be done.

Of course, all of that goes out the window once it comes to multiplayer, but c’mon, FromSoftware. Make people stop Elden ring without jumping through all those hoops. Their games – and really life in general – are hard enough to understand as it is.