Suggestion / Request: A way to Pause while still looking at altar mods

So now that we have the ability to pause a lot of features simply pause the game when we are doing something OTHER than killing monsters.

It would be greatly appreciated if we could have some manner or method to pause the game while reading altar mods and selecting which effect we desire. It can be rather irksome to read and hope no enemies are nearby or nothing random blasts you, to the point players often clear the area around the altar heavily before even looking at the mods (unless they are tanky).

Would really appreciate not having to worry about random death while trying to do something that ISN'T killing monsters, but directly affects how hard the map will become.

A toggle in the options to have the game be paused while the mouse cursor is hovered over an altar would be good.

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

A toggle in the options to have the game be paused while the mouse cursor is hovered over an altar would be good.

It would need to be a bit more specific than that. Imagine waving your cursor over it by accident and being completely jarred by the sudden stop of momentum in a zooming build, especially if its halfway offscreen and you can't see it.

Maybe hovering the altar pauses the game, then brings the altar choices center stage so they can be properly read. And if the player doesnt want either option they can hit a 3rd button that just minimizes the altar options so it isnt in the way anymore then unpauses the game + no longer pauses for that specific altar.

it exists, you open the ingame trade site, just rebind it to a good button

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JakeyBuoy#6873 wrote:

it exists, you open the ingame trade site, just rebind it to a good button

I do have it bound to an O.K. button, but that is a workaround lol (thankyou), not an exactly an obvious course of action for all players and definitely not a permanent solution since we want to improve the overall experience, like bosses having big health bars (finally).

Very helpful for me however and anyone that reads this feedback forum tho, thanks.

Just hit print screen and then pause the game I guess.

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JakeyBuoy#6873 wrote:

it exists, you open the ingame trade site, just rebind it to a good button

You can even press the altar button you want to press while paused and then unpause and it's pressed. You can also use the ingame market trade window to finally read that new debuff icon on you that just popped up because contrary to ESC-pause, mouse over tooltips fully work.

It's somewhat of a very powerful secret tip that very many players don't know exists.

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Raghin#2415 wrote:

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JakeyBuoy#6873 wrote:

it exists, you open the ingame trade site, just rebind it to a good button

I do have it bound to an O.K. button, but that is a workaround lol (thankyou), not an exactly an obvious course of action for all players and definitely not a permanent solution since we want to improve the overall experience, like bosses having big health bars (finally).

Very helpful for me however and anyone that reads this feedback forum tho, thanks.

That IS the solution. Not all players want to pause for alters.

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Piousqd#0073 wrote:

That IS the solution. Not all players want to pause for alters.

There is a lot of flexibility in how such a thing would work, and if anyone DOESN'T want it, a settings menu to disable the pause and keep it in its currently existing state isn't difficult to implement to acquiesce for people like you that don't want the benefit. The point of this post is to improve the overall gaming experience for the average user.

You would glance at it then click it in a flash, or turn it off in a settings tab. Options for everyone.

For example:
A very rare altar option has DIVINE orbs as a reward, but currently unless you use the trade menu in a weird technically "unintended way" (that many including myself likely didn't think of / know about) you have to clear all nearby enemies, which could INCLUDE more eldritch mobs that could be INSTEAD giving you divines from said shrine.

Or turn the setting off and speed read as usual, you do you. Not all of us have lazer reading skills and just want to enjoy things at our own pace.

or, hear me out....

we save the devs time by not doing it, which saves the rest of us time, by not having to deal with the new setting to configure, and also makes the game inherently better, as the devs get to work on important things.

and YOU, use the existing pause feature to pause to your hearts desire