Host Pause

Adds a host-controlled pause/resume button to Super Battle Golf multiplayer matches.

Features

• Adds Pause Game / Resume Game to the in-game pause menu.
• Uses the game's native rounded pause-menu button style.
• Shows the native banner with Game Paused.
• Plays each active player's assigned victory dance while the game is paused.
• Freezes gameplay state without changing Unity Time.timeScale.
• Syncs pause state through Steam lobby metadata instead of custom Mirror network messages.

Requirements

• All players should install the same version for the best experience.
• The host controls pausing and resuming.
• Requires BepInEx 5, provided automatically by the Thunderstore dependency.

Usage

1. Host or join a modded lobby.
2. Start a match.
3. Host opens the in-game pause menu.
4. Host clicks Pause Game.
5. To resume, host opens the pause menu again and clicks Resume Game.

Notes

This is a beta multiplayer quality-of-life mod. If you hit join/start issues, confirm every player is using the same version and try testing with only BepInEx plus Host Pause enabled.

Manual Disable

Delete or rename:

BepInEx/plugins/HostPauseMod.dll

Then restart the game.

Changelog

0.2.8

• Rebuilds the latest Host Pause multiplayer pause and lobby-flow fixes as a fresh Thunderstore release.

0.2.7

• Fixed a Harmony patch signature mismatch on the aiming-swing guard.
• Preserves the pause lockout behavior while avoiding startup patch errors.

0.2.6

• Fixed remote clients not always seeing host pause when their pause menu had not been created yet.
• Added a direct paused overlay so clients get a visible pause notification.
• Hardened pause blocking so players cannot keep moving, charging swings, using items, or sneak a golf hit through while paused.
• Kept the host-only Back to Lobby flow available through the pause menu for multiplayer matches.

0.2.5

• Improved pause-state stability and multiplayer behavior.