Square Enix has released Outriders on the PC and from the looks of it, PC gamers cannot pause the game. Well, that’s only if you own an AMD GPU as NVIDIA gamers can use Ansel in order to pause it.
To be honest, I find this hilarious. Not only does this game require a constant internet connection, but it also lacks a pause function. Oh, and there were major connectivity issues in the game’s first two days.
But anyway, owners of NVIDIA graphics cards can press Alt+F2 to activate Ansel. Once you activate it, your game will be paused. So yeah, the only way via which you can pause the game right now is only via Ansel. Do note that you’ll have to enable GeForce Experience, otherwise Ansel won’t work.
Now some may say that we’re exaggerating here and that a pause menu is not that important. However, and even when tweaking your graphics settings or when alt-tabbing, the game will be still running. So no, that’s not a “useless” feature.
We don’t know whether People Can Fly plans to implement an official pause function in the future. All we know is that AMD users are simply unable to pause the game.
Our PC Performance Analysis will go live in the next couple of days, so stay tuned for more!
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If you have to pause the game every 5 seconds, maybe the game isn’t for you… Or maybe there’s something wrong with you deeper inside.
Nvidia GPU ? What is this mythical creatures you are speaking of John ?
But then you would have to be playing this terrible game to care about pausing.
“Do note that you’ll have to enable GeForce Experience, otherwise Ansel won’t work.”
I can do it in another game without GF experience …
I take it John is not happy with this game, judging by the article text lol
even the first mario game can be paused.
Not in the arcade….
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What the f*k is this game?
As far as shooting and cover its Gears of war 1:1
Plus they added 4 types of classes “Mutations” so im playing as Pyromancer so i have different fire magic
The Main menu looks similar to Destiniy, it has loot and RPG elements
Also each class has huge a*s Skill three with passive bonuses
And the magic i think there are 6 or 8 icon and you get it automatically when you level up, also each type grows when you use it.
Also side quests can be replayed, after you finish one you get 3 items to choose from as gift, you can pick one, then you can talk to quest giver and replay the side quest, they kinda isolated, like door to separate area.
You can play alone or you can play with friends or you can leave your game open for others to join
Also the difficulty starts from Story and there are 20 levels of difficulty, and the longer you play they get unlocked, you start at story difficulty, after you finished into level you bumbed up to normal, then to hard and its automatically changes, but you can disable it and stay on any difficulty as you want, but with higher difficulty the chances for rare drops go higher
Its a Looter Shooter in Gears of war style
Well this game is really an MMO in disguise similar to Destiny so not being able to pause it even if playing solo is kinda understandable.
isn’t that “no pause” in this game intentional rather than not being included?
Yeah becuase its always online, you supposed to play with your friends, SP is kinda meh, but its fun, im playing on series x becuase its free [not avalible on PC gamepass]