Guild Wars 2

Since this is a competition, I think a new mechanic should be added to PvP. We should have a Pause or Timeout option that the team can call once per match. There are various reasons why someone may need to take a break in the middle of fighting. Some strategic, some personal. And if we’re going to treat GW2 as an E-Sport, you have to realize that most team sports allow for timeouts.

Most players know how hyper focused you can get in a good match, but real life sometimes calls you away from the keyboard. Power goes out. Router needs to reboot. Visitor at your door. Wife angry you didn’t take out the trash. Pet dog having an accident in the kitchen. Eating some chalupas and a nachos bellgrande, only to find your stomach is getting rekt from the inside. Everyone’s experienced some point where they wish they had a moment to recover.

Rules would be simple. Any player can call timeout, and the team needs to vote on it. If all 5 teammates agree, the match is halted for 30 seconds. Players are frozen in place like they were CC’d, and a countdown timer starts to tick.

This would just be abused to delay games.

30 seconds isn’t much of a delay.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

30 seconds isn’t much of a delay.

But both sides can so 1 min. Then theres setup time, and the gameplay doesn’t promote pausing. Your team is down? Call it and all the lingering aoe effects are gone. I would want to be the guy in charge of making a save state for every single effect in play on the field at the same time. The database structure to do that would be absurd.

or how about a new game mode? at round 1 you gotta take the point (other team needs to def it) and the next round your team needs to defend it and the other team is trying to take it

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Rules would be simple. Any player can call timeout, and the team needs to vote on it. If all 5 teammates agree, the match is halted for 30 seconds. Players are frozen in place like they were CC’d, and a countdown timer starts to tick.

Np, the pause will never happen then.

At the moment 10 people cant even agree to start the match they queued for a minute earlier.