Next, in order to access the slow-mo controller mappings, make sure you check the ‘List advanced bindings too’ checkbox at the top. To set this up, you will need to press the ‘Esc’ key to open the menu options and select the ‘Controls’ option (it’s the one that looks like a D-pad).

This means that rather than having to continously scroll through the slow motion speeds, we can set the controller mapping to jump specifically to what we need. However, what if you’d like to quickly jump to 8x slow motion rather than having to scroll through the 2x and 4x by pressing ‘Alt’ + ‘Left Arrow’ a few times? Furthermore, what if you’re at a specific slow motion setting and you’d like to quickly jump back to real time? Thankfully, BeamNG.drive allows you to map keys for these specific actions. This is great if you’re looking to gradually slow down time as you approach a collision or if you’re looking to speed up time after a collision. Each time you press these keys, time will slow down (or speed up) by intervals of 2x, 4x, 16x, or 100x slower/faster than realtime. By default, you can use the ‘Alt’ + ‘Left Arrow’ key combination to slow down time and ‘Alt’ + ‘Right Arrow’ key combination to speed it up. The slow-motion feature is built in to BeamNG.drive and does not require any mods to use it. So I wanted to make this blog post to talk about the various ways of activating slow motion in-game.

I often get asked in the comments of my videos “ how can I slow down time?” or “ how do I use slow motion?” in BeamNG.drive.

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