Originally posted by electricdawn:

Hitting ESC doesn't make you end up in the main menu. That's why @Cap'n Bells asked. You end up... in the pause menu. Main menu is when you start the game and have the character selection in front of you.

It's probably just a misunderstanding.

My assumption would be that you were actually running a server and that's why the pause didn't work. But this is not the first time I read about this, although we're still waiting on a satisfying explanation if it really happened and if so, why.

Oh I get it, yeh a misunderstanding. I was confused. I just paused by hitting escape as stated originally.

Also not running a server, that button is always unticked and I have been playing alone all week.

I am trying to replicate the bug but it's not easy to do so. I think the bug happens (or might happen) when you log into a game where immediately there is a status effect.

All I can think that I did was just boot the game, I had died earlier and was about to do a corpse run. I was about to take the frost resist potion when I was called. So I paused the game.

Maybe when booting up the game into a status effect the pause doesn't work? I am not really sure. I need to test it out, but I don't want to die again.