What a pain in the ****. They should have let us preload the game, now have to wait 10 hrs + for a 22.6 gig download instead of playing now.
I'm already in and I must say 'the water is pretty nice'
Basically you operate between missions in your headquarters where you have a set amount of hours, the hours do not progress no matter how long you run around, they only progress when you run a event or mission.
When the time runs out you're off to your next main mission and there you go into a open world of large instances where you run into encounters and enter combat which is a much smaller instance with the enemies.
Awesome thanks for the explanation! I appreciate it.