Don't pause on Unfocus (Mainly in Multiplayer)

This request has already been made several times, with no response. I recently found an old topic that has an interesting comment on it, so I'm reopening the application.

The reason is that pauseOnBlur makes it impossible to create any real time multiplayer P2P game in Construct.

To understand why, just open the engine's own multiplayer examples and press alt+tab as the host. The second player will lose movement. Even if the objects are not synchronized, the player stops running events that would be important in a Real Time game.

Is it possible to somehow prevent the game from pausing when it's out of focus?

Hmm, I haven't dabbled with multiplayer in a while but I faintly remember that that's not supposed to happen actually. If a player is set as host specifically it should keep the game running regardless. Maybe I remember that wrong though...

Hmm, I haven't dabbled with multiplayer in a while but I faintly remember that that's not supposed to happen actually. If a player is set as host specifically it should keep the game running regardless. Maybe I remember that wrong though...

This works in a weird way. The host keeps receiving some events (messages I believe), but it keeps the object synchronized in its position.

Anyway, as a better example just use Photon and nothing else works. The game is completely paused.

Even without considering multiplayer, some games that have "action wait" can make the player want to press alt+tab to do something else. It is very unpleasant not being able to disable this option.

looking forward to an answer.

In addition, disabling Pause on unfocus in the preview doesn't work either.

Complicated idea... but very creative haha

In a two-player situation, if both players alt+tab at the same time, the room would be closed. XD