Cyberpunk 2077 player calls immersive mod perfect for bike riding – real motorcyclists strongly disagree
A Cyberpunk 2077 fan known as matrixagentfr recently posted a short video of riding a motorcycle through Night City with the Immersive First Person mod, calling the result "perfect." However, the game's community met this demonstration with a torrent of criticism, especially from actual motorcyclists.
As one real bike owner wrote:
As a motorcyclist – this looks terrible.
Dozens of other bikers joined the criticism, pointing out fundamental problems with the mod.
The main complaint concerns camera positioning. Based on the video, V's head sits roughly at seat level rather than where it should be physically. This creates the effect of barely hanging onto handlebars with arms stretched several meters forward. V even earned several nicknames:
V 10-meter arms
V spaghetti arms
V ears-for-shoulders
The second issue involves incorrect leaning mechanics. During turns, the character leans opposite to the turn direction, contradicting real motorcycle physics.
In reality you lean with the turns, not against them.
Moreover, motorcyclists noted that when taking corners at speed, riders need to lean lower than the bike, not higher.
The third criticism targets visibility. More than half the screen gets occupied by the motorcycle itself and the character's arms, making it nearly impossible to see the road ahead. One gamer joked by posting a photo of racer Rollie Free, who reached 240 km/h in 1948 while lying flat on his motorcycle in a swimming suit – exactly how the mod's camera position looks.
Fans didn't stop there. Additional criticism targeted the video's color correction. Users noted that the bright neon lights and characteristic cyberpunk aesthetic of Night City transformed into a blurred gray-beige mess, with all cyberpunk atmosphere vanishing – the lights, neon signs, advertisements.
However, some users offered a constructive solution – combining the mod with another tool called Better First Person Vehicle Camera, which raises the camera higher above the bike and eliminates the sensation of V trying to stick their nose into the gas tank (or its equivalent on electric bikes).
