Drive with gears - Don't drive like a cyberpsycho

Does it bother you as much as me that your character is always putting the pedal to the metal like a cyberpsycho when driving? It's nice to actually having gears and seeing the current RPM, but then there should also be the option to hold your speed and gear.

Cyberpunk only looks good with wet streets and no rain at night. I love to drive around during that time in first person, enjoying the light show. But not being able to drive slower in a constant pace, I've made my personal fix of this little problem.

This little key setup offers two more keys that you can use to accelerate and control your max. speed to some extend.

The following key combination of gears/max speed is possible:

W -              -> slowest speed (for sightseeing or to drive at speeds close to the AI)

LShift + W --> this is something between W and only shift

LShift         --> accelerate and drive with about 42% of your vehicles total power

LShift + V  --> again, this is a value between holding only LShift or V

V                 --> Full speed (vanilla behaviour)

I tried to make the values as realistic as possible to work properly with all the vehicles I'm driving. But there's a drawback of this little "hack": Because max. acceleration and speed are equally affected, driving slow vehicles like trucks or those cars with the engine of a lawnmower, you might actually have to use LShift or even V to start moving in a decent manner until you reach your desired speed. Otherwise you'll need ages to haul your ass up a steep road.

You can easily adjust the key bindings and tweak values to your own liking by editing the gears.xml.  Attached, there's also a .txt with an overview of the keys you can use.

REQUIREMENTS

Input Loader

INSTALLATION

Verify that you don't have another "mod" overwriting those controls. Check all .xml files in this location (Cyberpunk_install_dir\r6\input). If there are files that modify the same values, delete those <mappings> completely or at least adjust the key bindings. Otherwise things might get wonky.

Extract the gears.xml into your Cyberpunk game folder. (Cyberpunk_install_dir\r6\input).

Delete gears.xml in r6\input.

No thanks! Help yourself! I'm fighting an illness for more than 2 years now. I won't be able to help if there are questions. Ask around somewhere else please.

This format is made in October 2022 for the Cyberpunk 1. 6 patch. If there's an update required, you may message me. With luck, I'll be able to update the file to work with a new cyberpunk/r6 version. But I think it should work for many more versions to come.