The point is that the escape button is rarely used to actually pause, but instead for either retrying or returning to song select. Therefore those functions are also conveniently placed right in the middle as 2 huge buttons. It is very easy to accidentally hit one of those. Especially since mouse buttons are enabled at the menu.XPJ38 wrote:
Escape button already pauses/unpauses. What's the point?
if you put blank images for pause-back.png, pause-continue.png the only way you can retry or go back to menu is by using the arrow keys.Zakdawg wrote:
The point is that the escape button is rarely used to actually pause, but instead for either retrying or returning to song select. Therefore those functions are also conveniently placed right in the middle as 2 huge buttons. It is very easy to accidentally hit one of those. Especially since mouse buttons are enabled at the menu.XPJ38 wrote:
Escape button already pauses/unpauses. What's the point?
But you don't actually have to use the mouse to unpause. Just press Escape to pause, leave your mouse aside, and press Escape again to unpause.Zakdawg wrote:
The point is that the escape button is rarely used to actually pause, but instead for either retrying or returning to song select. Therefore those functions are also conveniently placed right in the middle as 2 huge buttons. It is very easy to accidentally hit one of those. Especially since mouse buttons are enabled at the menu.XPJ38 wrote:
Escape button already pauses/unpauses. What's the point?
what?Fr33z3R wrote:
My hand is already accurate on insta-pause, exit when i'm starting to feel i'm failing on a map. XD
No thanks. Escape button is good enough. Does the "Wait for 1 second to pause again" thing bother you?
Yeah... but that has nothing to do with this request at all.iDolan wrote:
There is a 1 second delay before you can pause again
I have not said I had problems reaching the Esc button at all. My problem to be specific is that on long fast songs without any breaks. I find a slider which I hit and immediately press Esc after (which I have rebinded). I use x/z and have therefore mouse muttons disabled during game play, because I sometimes press the mouse buttons down for a better grip. So in those rare cases where it happens that i pause and hit a mouse button. It makes me wonder why osu! doesn't have a normal pause button instead of merging it together with the Esc key, as it would prevent these incidents.MarioBound wrote:
Once you keep playing long enough, your hands will instantly reach for the Esc button like its second nature.
. I think that having a button that pauses and un-pauses would be much better then having that little annoying orange circle. The most common reason for why we can't have that is, because people would abuse it like they did with the old pause. Solution could possibly be just limiting the number of pauses you can have for each play.