Default Day & Night cycle is too short and bad.

[sonic16]

First of all the day & night cycle is laughable short. I barely walked though a few POIs and it's already night. Talked to some NPCs during the day, got ready for a mission and it's already night again. We don't even get to appreciate sunsets and dawns anymore.
The second problem is that the night is 50% of the cycle and it's a chore to play during the night. It's a chore to navigate during the night. You can't see anything, the flashlight is useless, random encounters are too frequent and you can't see s**t. Moreover, right now with all the optimisations issues you have to use DLSS and/or FrameGen which both add visual artefacts making it even harder to see through vegetation at night.
If I had to parameter a mod (that I'm sure will be there soon) for this, I'd set the day & night cycle to be x5 to x10 times longer and the day being 70 to 80% of the cycle.

[Shai`tan]

Couldn`t agree with you more. We need to have more control over the Day/Night Cycles. I didn`t invest in the Rig I have to be walking round in the dark all the time. This exact issue is why I Refunded. Devs take note. Ohhh look at the amazing Unreal 5 Engine visuals....... using your flashlight. Ahuh. Thx..... for nuthin.

[Crow]

I agree... should be at least 2 hours or even 3, we don't get to enjoy the environment, not only that we see the shadows moving because the sun moves too fast.

[meda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6M1OF_E0IA

[Shai`tan]

Allow a day/Night Cycle Time setting in the gameplay Applet for the User to adjust to preference.

[Rezzuu]

There is a mod for longer day/night , but i heard it breaks alot of things like AI schedules, emission etc.

[Shai`tan]

Hopefully somebody tries this Mod and posts findings. Thx.

[dvls]

Agree 100%, currently 1h irl is 24h in the zone, it should be at least 2-3 times longer (i believe in OG trilogy it was around 3-4h irl/24h in game).
Im pretty sure they're gonna change it cuz a lot of people complain about it including myself but the thing is its not that simple cuz it'll require tweaking other things accordingly such as: emissions, hunger, tasks possibly too (currently u can only get 1 per day from barmans, longer days would mean less tasks) and because they have other priorities right now such as fixing A-Life and bugs i guess gameplay changes will come later on.

[Cooperal]

Agreed. It is nice when a game gives you an option to operate in the day or night, but in this game you are doing both unless you take your adventures in bitesize chunks.

I remember in the early game there is a windmill where you find Squint just outside of the first town. About 50 yards down the road there is a campfire that friendly stalkers like to sit at. I lost all of my ammo and a huge chunk of sunlight crossing that short space when I was accosted by 3 separate packs of fleshes and two groups of hostile stalkers practically one after the other.