fastest way to change day/night

[dem1rell]

im supposed to get photo of zinogre howling to moon. i post quest several times but i cant get night for shooting. should i keep posting or theres trick for this?

[the commando]

basicly there is a ingame day night cycle of cycling day and night every 20 mins if it's day in base it will be day in the mission.

[dem1rell]

Originally posted by the commando:

basicly there is a ingame day night cycle if cycling day and night every 20 mins if it's day in base it will be day in the mission.

thanks. it seems only way is waiting on camp

[Walrus-Sama]

Doing a quest or fast traveling to a different area seems to make the day/night cycle skip forward a short amount. Maybe try faster traveling between two or more areas until the desired time.

[Greb]

Day and night cycles are based on a 50 minute timeframe, I believe. Day is longer than night, it's not a 50-50 split. Also dawn and dusk last about 3 minutes each or something like that, not entirely sure. It's something like 25 minutes of day time, 18 minutes of night time, and then however much that is left is split between dusk and dawn.

I really don't think there's a way to artificially move time forward, I think it's connected to the session you are currently in - I've seen similar gripes from people who tried using Cheat Engine to speed up the game time by a factor of 10, to try and move the day / night cycle along and all it does is speed up the clouds in the sky but not the time of day itself, which is apparently a really surreal experience lol, clouds moving at lightspeed but the sun remaining firmly in place.

I do notice the time of day seems to vary wildly when you hop between sessions though, for what it's worth. That might help you find a currently night time session quicker if you're not willing to wait half an hour or whatnot.

I've had experiences with friends where it has been dusk for them but night time for me, though. In particular when we were taking a screenshot together, they had a deep red and orange skyline because it was dusk, but on my end it was the middle of the night almost, dark and blue with a full moon looming overhead. So I dunno so much about the session-wide time cycle...it's just a guess.

For me though, I'd just go farm RP or coal in the Grinding Lands for half an hour or so until night time rolled around naturally. Doesn't take too long, although it's true when you're waiting for something specifically it feels like it takes forever lol.

[Boboscus]

As far as I know fast traveling distance seems to affect it, if you only go from Astera to the forest it skips a little bit, but if you go to elder's recess it's gonna speed it up faster.

[Homeless.]

I think fast traveling affects it, was looking for nettle the other day and jumped camps so it seemed to work