Pause menu

Pause the game when opening the start menu. Enemies won't move and the night's tide won't advance, but you can still add map pins, change settings, move your equipment around, etc.

• []Install me3 using the setup wizard linked under "Windows Installation".

  []Download the mod and extract it somewhere.

  []Double-click the nrpause.me3 file to start the game with the mod enabled.

  Alternatively if you already have a .me3 config with other mods, you can add this snippet from nrpause.me3 to your config file.

  If for whatever reason me3 doesn't work for you, you can also install the mod using Elden Mod Loader. This requires you to manually disable and enable the anti-cheat. See instructions on Elden Mod Loader's Nexus page.

  You can optionally edit the included .ini file to change when the game pauses:

  • []map_menu (default: true) - pause while the map is open

    []equipment_menu (default: true) - pause while the equipment screen is open

    []status_menu (default: true) - pause while the status screen is open

    []shops (default: false) - pause while browsing a merchant shop

    []dialog (default: false) - pause while choosing between a list of dialog options while talking to an NPC

    []dormant_power (default: false) - pause while choosing a reward from a boss

    []hotkey (default: true) - pause and unpause by pressing F9

    If you don't want to change the default behavior of the game, you could set everything to false except hotkey. This way, the game would only pause or unpause when you manually choose to.

    On the other hand, you could change everything to true so you have infinite time to browse shops and boss rewards.

    Note that some menus don't allow closing with Start or Escape when paused. Pressing the back button still works though.

    Multiplayer

    Pausing is only intended for single player usage. Launching the game with EAC disabled will prevent you from connecting to other players. You can re-enable EAC later to play online again without the mod.

    Mod by Tom Clark.

    Special thanks to Nordgaren, Vincent Swarte (chainfailure), and Rayan for assistance in exploring different ways to implement the pause feature.

    Source code: https://github.com/ThomasJClark/nightreign-pause/blob/main/nrpause.cpp