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[anthonylocke]

So right now it doesn’t seem like there’s much to do at night. So I use skip time to make it day again. The problem is, it moves so slow I could watch almost a whole episode of Family Guy. I don’t know if this was intentional or if it’s a bug (hoping it’s a bug) but it should probably move just as quickly as it does in GTA 5 (where the you see the sun/moon shoot across the sky and the time changes in like 3 seconds).

Other than that, alpha is pretty damn awesome! The combat is really, really cool!

[LordCrash]

If I had to guess I’d say that the skip time mechanics is so slow because the AI is very complex and everybody has complex day and night cycles. That’s a bit different to GTA V in which everything is almost the same and no real NPCs with complex behaviours exist. I hope they can optimize that a lot until release though.

[Araduin]

It is quite slow. I’d expect this to get better. I’m a bit in the dark on the AIs complexity with their routines, but it doesn’t seem much different from, say Skyrim, and the skip time in that is a lot faster.

[Earl_Thorn]

Check out this post from the WH Team specifically talking about the complexities of the AI system and it’s impact on game performance;

►Alpha 0.4 Bug List

since everybody tends to brag about AI performance, I took some time to shed some light on it: just few numbers to get you all into picture about the AI systems - the overall numbers of NPC have gone up by 300% . not including all the support systems. presently there are about 1200+ AI entities of various degrees of simulation capabilities. presently we are running all of them in full simulation without the dark magic we put up during works for the E3 presentation. since we need to stabilise m…

It’s great that they share these insights with us