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Elden Ring does not have a pause button, but with this method we can stop the action without the need for mods. It works on all platforms, both on PC and consoles.
If you have already started playing Elden Ring you will have noticed that, despite being intentionally more accessible than other FromSoftware games , it still has a fairly high difficulty, a house brand . Although it is something that we already expected, that level of demand is multiplied by dispensing with the pause button, something that is also characteristic of the Japanese studio’s games. However, users have found alternative ways to stop the game thanks to a method that still works (at least with the latest version, v1.02.3 ).
Until now, the only way to pause Elden Ring was through the use of mods on PC , as Hidetaka Miyazaki’s studio wanted to stay true to its philosophy of not allowing the game’s action to be stopped. However, a Twitter user has discovered how to pause the game by taking advantage of an option provided by the game’s own menu: we simply have to access the inventory, press the ‘help’ button and select the ‘Menu explanation’ option . This will display a context window that stops the game completely, as opposed to pressing the standard button to bring up the menu or displaying the map.
FromSoftware could patch this method to pause Elden Ring
The truth is that it is a somewhat convoluted method to pause the action, but considering that FromSoftware does not plan to include an option to stop the game by default, it is the only way we have to do it, at least on console and without game mods. via. From VGC they have confirmed that this method still works, but they also warn that the study could correct it in future updates , since it is clearly an interaction that they did not want to be available to players.
In any case, as long as it continues to work, it will surely help many people who need a little more help to finish Elden Ring.