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Useful tip. Actually, I've already been caught during a conversation so I am definitely going to use this. Thank you both for your help.

Quick update: reinstalling the game seemed to have fixed the issue. Time now goes by regularly (5 min talking with an NPC and only one hour ingame passed). Incidentally, I also found a mod that makes the cycle longer and that I might try out if the issue appears again: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/71

Thank you for your answers. I play on PC (Steam version) and it happens for every single conversation outside a building. I play in turn based but I doubt it has anything to do with the issue. I'll try reinstalling the game.

Hello everyone, I recently finished PoE 1, just started PoE 2 today. and one thing really confuses me and kind of break immersion: the day/night cycle speed. When I talk to the NPC, the game goes through a day/night full cycle every minute, which is very confusing. For example, the conversation before recruiting Xoti lasted about 4 minutes in real time and I went from day to night to day in game exactly 4 times during this conversation. The same thing happened when I met Aloth with 3 day/night/day cycles passing by the end of the conversation. How come the cycle is so fast? And is there a way to slow it down?

I'm now doing some reading to learn a little bit more about Assassin casters. The single handed Assassin/Paladin idea sounds really fun too. I'm gonna look into it. Thank you both for your suggestions.

Thank you for your explanation, Boeroer. I didn't know that Shadowing Beyond was a free action and that the arquebus was better. I'll definitely plan my build around these. I still have a big concern about playing Bleak Walker / Holy Slayer though, that is the very small number of active abilities. I am worried to end up just spamming Flames of Devotion every single turn and getting bored of my main character. Are there other turn based assassin builds that would offer larger active toolkits? I am tempted to go single class melee assassin but I'm not sure it is viable in turn based.

Hello everyone, I recently finished PoE 1 playing rogue / assassin in Hard mode and I had such a great time that I decided to continue with PoE 2 but the differences (talent tree / multiclassing / etc...) are so overwhelming that I am really struggling making my first character for Deadfire. On top of that, I would like to play turn based and the scarcity of information regarding this mode and viable builds make it very it difficult for an undecisive person like me to make it past character creation. Therefore, I decided to join this forum to ask for your advice. After some research, I had decided to go for a Holy Slayer with dual pistols and I was actually pretty excited about the RP aspect of the Bleak Walkers but when I created the character, I realized two main issues : this build uses only two abilities (Flames of Devotion and Smole of Veil) and the latter does not actually seem to work well with turn based (invisibility gone by next round). I then looked for single class assassin builds in turn based but if there is any information at all, I wasn't able to find it. Ideally, I would like to play a cannon glass rogue (dual weapons, melee or range) that uses multiple situational abilitie to move around and quickly takes down the most dangerous ennemies. My main goal is not min/max-ing my character but rather making the most out of us during each turn, positioning and setting up for maximum damage but getting one shot if a single mistake is commited. I don't have any single/multi class preference, but I would like to stay as roguish as possible. I plan on playing with a full party (tank, another melee, priest and mage). Do you know of any build that would match this kind of playstyle? If you have any suggestion, I am all ears. I'm really looking forward to my first playthrough of PoE 2! Thank you for your time.