I’ve been on the fence and am tempted to bite (pun intended) at that price.
Kind of annoyed I bought it at 30% off now. Haven’t even installed it.
Actually I just uninstalled it. If this were an earlier era I would have flung the CD case across the room. This is a sim-type game WITH NO FUCKING PAUSE BUTTON.
In 2018.
What the F’ing F?
I’ve never returned something to Steam but I’m tempted to do so.
Oh and spare me the alternate POV/design philosophy on lack of pause. For this type of game, for me, pause is non-negotiable, full stop. Maybe it’s a GREAT philosophy but for me, it’s NO SALE.
Edit: put in a request for a refund to my Steam Wallet. There’s plenty of other stuff for me to spend this money on.
Le sigh. I was kinda enjoying the mellow dino milieu, but honestly, DONT MAKE ME COME OVER THERE AND INSTALL A PAUSE BUTTON (or a save anywhere button or a NO GODDAMN JUMPING PUZZLES button).
I hope that I have provided your necessary cranky old dude ranting on Thanksgiving time for today. Next!
Honestly, for me, it isn’t even a type of game thing. All games require a pause option. No pause, no sale, 100% guaranteed.
I got two little kids. When I need to pause the game because a kid is screaming bloody murder, that means I need to stop rightthefucknow.
I googled, and apparently the ESC button brings up the menu, which pauses the game.
That’s not the kind of pause I care about; it does address CraigM’s more general need for a pause button, but that type of “pause” does not address my issue, of wanting to pause while reviewing info and making building decisions in a sim/build type game.
Also, I did some googling and apparently this decision not to allow pause and give orders was intentional: the Devs wanted “excitement and panic” when Dinos break loose and so on. Which is fine, if it was optional. Add an “Irontime-No-Pause” mode, just like some games have Ironman modes. Unfortunately these devs did not give the players that choice.
No pause equals cheap, lazy, design - often the sign of a lack of depth.
Thanks for the heads up on this. Yeah thats a deal breaker for me as well.
“Smart pause” was a minor feature I suggested for the Jagged Alliance 2 1.13 mod.
Let’s say you enter a new sector. All your guys are just standing around doing nothing. You have not been spotted yet, so turn-based combat has not been triggered. So, for the time being, everything is real time.
It would be nice to pause the game, assign movement orders, then un-pause the game and have them take effect. For instance, have 4 guys move to the top of the map, and 4 guys move to the bottom of the map, and have them all start walking at the same time. Currently you can’t pause and issue orders, so everything depends on how quickly you can scroll the map and switch between characters.
I was made fun of for making this suggestion. :(
And me. Thanks for the warning. I had no idea.
We’ve tried this to live by this when I game with my sister… any of the games we have without pause like 7 Days to Die, Don’t Starve Together… yeah my nephew wakes up, and we die. Pause should always be an option. Anyone who doesn’t want to use a pause or thinks servers shouldn’t have pause… well go find a server with that option turned off!
Thanks for the heads up.
One thing I should clarify - this does have a form of pause (hitting escape) to handle emergency situations like kids and pets.
What it doesn’t have is a pause feature that’s lets you give orders, build, or get info from the main view while paused
The issue is not total lack of all pause but the lack of the build while paused feature which I consider essential to this type of game
I understand, if not agree, with the wishes of the game designer to want to keep emergencies feeling frantic. However, the big failure is that in these situations you are requesting humans to go and do their damn jobs. I can’t imagine I would need to tell my recovery team how to find and when to shoot a friggin dinosaur. Instead, I should just relay priorities, like go get that one first or such. If you gave me this type of true control than I could possibly see the design merits of this type of pausing.
Sadly looking at steam reviews, the game gets boring apparently.
How did they make a Jurassic Park game boring?
Almost OT but not quite, does Parkasaurus allow for building while paused? That seems to do a better job of scratching the same itch…
You got me excited for a moment there and then I saw it’s still EA.
Interestingly, Parkasaurus is testing a pause feature right now from what I can see. Whether or not they implement a decent pause option will be a huge factor in whether I buy the game.
Anyone ever hear of a download site called Nuuvem? They have it on sale for $13.69, which is almost cheap enough to get me to ignore the limitations, but I’m cautious because it’s so cheap and this appears to be the only place that even has it marked down.
Never bought from them, they are listed on the reddit game deals site, so its probably legit.
It’s a Brazilian site. As such they have local pricing, which due to monetary and economic factors, tend to be lower.
The bugaboo being that, as they are supposed to be local, buying from them as an American is of… dubious legality. Additionally you may run into region locking issues.
Rhamorim has used them before just fine, but he is Brazilian.