Elden Ring has been out for a couple of weeks and while people continue to shout from the rooftops how much they love the game –
In boss fights or legacy dungeons, that’s not the case. You’re left either frantically searching for a grace point or full-on quitting the game, which mind you, is low-key a very viable way to “pause,” if you will – something Soulsborne modder Lance McDonald cheekily joked about recently on Twitter. However, Twitter user Iron Pineapple has seemingly discovered a way to pause in Elden Ring, mid-whatever you’re doing.
guess what, Elden Ring DOES have a pause button
just open “Menu Explanation” while on the inventory screen
this isn’t a meme, it actually works lmao pic.twitter.com/0tNLFaWwC7
— Iron Pineapple (@IronPineapple_) March 8, 2022
As you can see in the tweet above, it’s by no means as simple as pressing a single button, but it does appear to legitimately pause the game. To do it, you need to open up your menus, access the “Help” menu and then go down to “Menu Explanation.” For whatever reason, that seems to freeze the state of Elden Ring, pausing the in-game action. Is it an official pause? Not really. Does it work? Yeah. Is it annoying to use compared to a standard pause? For sure.
Alas, it’ll do for now.
For more about the game, read Game Informer’s Elden Ring review to find out why we think it’s one of the best games ever made, and then check out this story about someone who beat Elden Ring in under three hours without dying. Read about why one Game Informer editor thinks playing Elden Ring with friends is even better than playing alone.
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