Vehicle Gears

All ground vehicles that feature typical engines, such as the Flash, Harasser, and Sunderer use gears to control the efficiency of the vehicle's acceleration at different speeds.

Vehicles automatically switch between gears as appropriate for their current speed, adjusting the efficiency with which they accelerate. This can be noticed by watching the speedometer of the vehicle, as there will be a brief pause at a "speed ceiling" prior to the gear shifting upwards, such as at approximately 40kph in a Harasser. The Flash's in-world dashboard also has a display of the vehicle's gears, the only vehicle to do so.

A niche technique known as "gear skipping" can be employed to slightly improve the rate at which acceleration occurs on relevant vehicles, by releasing the accelerator for a brief moment before reaching the speed ceiling of a gear before immediately accelerating again, skipping that short delay the gear would otherwise take before automatically shifting upwards.

Only vehicles using typical engines make use of gears, and hovercraft like the Javelin and Magrider instead accelerate at a constant speed without using gears.