When I Pause the game by pressing the Esc key to make a coffee or go to the toilet the game isnt actually on pause. I come back to find half my energy gone and that I am in a firefight!
Can the Escape or pause be made to function as expected.
1 Like
It doesn’t pause, it was designed as a squad based game so your machine is always running the game as if players are always playing
Pretty much what cta102 said. Once you startup the game, even if it’s solo it’s a private multiplayer session. I can recommend fast-travelling to a safehouse, churches are the safest. Or hide inside a house, crouched down. Usually when I need a toilet break, I actually go and lock my character inside a bathroom in a house or similar 
1 Like
Not the best solution especially when you are quite far away from a safehouse but something to remember for the future.
1 Like
Go to ground, Alan, just like a real soldier does!
1 Like
I used to crouch ingame in toilets also as irl events provoke some interruptions in my game. In the open world I have already crouched several times hidden in bushes, under a bridge, on a seashore or on a steep slopes. I am lucky, never I was spotted and attacked by the machines even during a couple of hours. Any resemblance to the real life makes me laugh each time XD.
Interesting, I didn’t know the word gopnik.
And apart from the dress code and crouching they have also an original music, the hardbass (took a look at wiki).
Why does the screen go dark - ish if the action isnt on stop I wonder. Wouldnt it be better to not give the impression that the game is paused by not dimming the screen?
I quite agree. At the beginning I thought it was a semi-pause like in F4 where the game time is slowed and the damage taken diminished.