pressing ESC causes some things to break such as chat window or loss of USB controller/joystick.
Could a process tree diagram be created to explain the systems involved and the processes that are running or influenced when a player presses ESC.
Or could a 0.5 second delay be put into some code on a dev build to see if stability in increased. So when a player presses ESC a short half second delay is given to allow background processes to stay alive and not fail.
run amra game, press ESC. What really happens when you press ESC?
pressing ESC causes some things to break such as chat window or loss of USB controller/joystick.
I've never experienced any of this. What do you mean by break? You don't see the chat while being in the pause menu? Does it show again if you close the menu again? If so, then I wouldn't consider this a bug and probably the smallest issue the game has. Same for the controller prolem you described.
Or could a 0.5 second delay be put into some code on a dev build to see if stability in increased.
This game does work not at all like you think it does. How is that supposed to solve anything?