In Elden Ring you have to fight through the Zwischenland and lead many challenging fights. If you need a little time for a while, you can activate a very useful special ability with a small inventory trick.

Soulslike games like Elden Ring are known for their gloomy atmosphere, imaginative monsters and of course the high degree of difficulty. The challenges also count the absence of a pause function – but fans have now found a way in Elden Ring to pause the game alone by calling a menu.

Elden Ring: Auxiliary menu in inventory paused game

In the Open World of Elden Ring players with a small trick is an unusual feature available: a way to pause the game. Twitter-User Iron Pineapple shows in a short video, How to treat yourself a well-deserved break in Elden Ring :

In the video it can be seen that your Elden Ring can actually pause when you call your inventory in the game, then changes to the auxiliary menu and select menu statement . The trick is obviously also works if you are surrounded by an opponent Horde – by the menu your opponents simply freeze. Thus, you can rethink your tactics in peace or turn to tasks in the real world without losing essential progress.

SoulSlike hit with unexpected function

The fromSoftware games are usually known to offer No pause function . Those who want to beat Dark Souls and Co. must therefore give up the practical feature. Accordingly, surprisingly, the discovery of the break trick is in elden ring.

So I Tried Elden Ring

For this reason, players should not rely too much on the function: they may be a mistake and ** will be removed from the game in future updates. If this should happen, you can still help you with a corresponding mod. (Source: Nexusmods)

The community has already created several interesting mods for Elden Ring – and, for example, brings in this way, an improved frame rate or Thomas the locomotive into the game.

Look at the Open World Trailer to Elden Ring in the video: