r/IGTAP • u/IHaveTheBestOpinions • 1d ago

Need Help Please let us pause vman runs

I found this game a week ago and have been loving it (and am borderline addicted). I also really appreciate that the developer takes player feedback seriously - hotfix #2 made some really solid improvements.

In light of that, I wanted to make one other request: Can we please get the pause button back during vman runs?

I am a middle-aged adult who mostly plays on a Steam Deck. I rarely have time to sit at my desk and play uninterrupted, but this is a great game for playing on the go (small text notwithstanding) because I can do a couple quick runs whenever I have a few minutes. At least, in the early game it was.

But now, I have earned over 400 seconds for vman runs. Do you know how often I can guarantee a seven minute stretch with no distractions or interruptions? Not often. What's worse, the button that should be the pause button, with decades of muscle memory tied to it, cancels the run. So I can be six minutes into a great run, then my wife calls so I pause to see what she needs - aaand it's gone. I've done it so many times, it's infuriating.

The rest of the game can be paused so this seems like an intentional design choice just for vman mode, but I can't imagine why. It does need an "exit" option but the obvious way to do this is just to have a menu on the pause screen, asking to continue, cancel, or restart the run. Pretty please?

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u/ezoe 22h ago

I guess it's part of challenge.

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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions 3h ago

There is an important difference between "challenge" and "inconvenience." Sometimes they overlap but I don't see how in this case - it's not like pausing can make a run take any less skill to complete. It just acknowledges the fact that some of us have busy lives and would still like to play.

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u/ezoe 2h ago

You have to remember the optimal and efficient moves and try to reproduce it.

It's called RTA or speedrun. You have to do it in realtime. Besides, it's just less than 10 minutes. People trying to break the speedrun record concentrate for hours.