Eldritch Altars should pause the game with a menu.

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ShadyC#1006 wrote:

This community has always been at the bottom.

You play a victim but don't realise how rude and unclear you have been. You use extra "question marks" and "..." in a clear signal of despise for those who tried to help you here, than, as I said, play yourself as a victim.

It´s is clear now that you will not recognize your mistakes, and at some extend, you are just seeking for atention. So, I am out!

But, in time, I do hope no unwanted pauses come to the game.

OP, I'll draw you to this thread regarding why I personally commented on the difficulty of repositioning before esc, rather than clicking on the altar itself.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3923789


See the #1 point. I'm fairly sure this happens to be a very common problem that people have with altars. It's also why the QoL you are suggesting is not as good as the QoL we already have which involves clicking ANYWHERE else, and then pressing esc. Also note how fleshed out the idea is, and how LITTLE pushback it received from the "QoL police community".

I'm not so sure why you are having more difficulties positioning the pause menu; for most mods you can tell from even a sliver of information (not the whole description), making it pretty darn easy to get the information you need while paused.

Solution: Pick red altars, never read, never click, sell invitations as minor bonus while running a strategy that is so good, you don't really need those lousy % from the altar.

or enjoy the blue altar pipe dream and spend ~10 hours additional game time each league just for reading altars to maybe get a good divine altar every 3 leagues or so ;P

Well, jesus, how about a toggle/checkbox that either has the menu pause the game, or not pause the game, lmao...

We are writing the rules, we can make it whatever we want.




No matter how you boil it down, the game asking YOU to pause, and hit the button that's on the corner of the keyboard, is super awkward.

And the current iteration is super awkward.

The thread you linked still suggests a game pause. I don't know why mine is treated as bad, and this one is not. (And I REALLY hope we're not still caught up on the false assumption that my original concept was suggesting a surprise pop-up pause menu when an Altar spawns. Surely we've moved past this by page 2.)

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ShadyC#1006 wrote:

As stated... it's annoying having to try to position my character in the perfect place for me to be able to see the options without the text running either off-screen or behind the Esc pause menu.

click / instead, brings up the trade window on left side

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Strickl3r#3809 wrote:

Solution: Pick red altars, never read, never click, sell invitations as minor bonus while running a strategy that is so good, you don't really need those lousy % from the altar.

This is the way.

Personally, I only smash the minion altar choices without caring to read. Grand Eldritch Embers are a great bonus loot that have historically been valuable in every league, and the red mobs aren't that difficult to kill either.