Help!! Drifting on PS Controller

[♛ Xenon-]

How do you guys Drift using a PS controller? What are your difficulty settings?

[Specific Beef]

Difficulty settings won't change how hard it is to drift. You can drift in AWD cars just fine, but you might find RWD is better for drifting.

Firstly, if you're having problems with it then you might be asking the car to do too much at once. You'll spin out if you don't think about drift and forward momentum in a kind of push-pull way. Remember that the cars maintain speed for a long time after you've taken your finger off the accelerator, and if you try and put a lot into acceleration when your braking has just started the wheels to skid then you're asking for trouble.

Drift requires some speed and then something to slightly cut your speed as you turn to cause the back end to swing out. Turning itself reduces your speed, and sometimes cornering is all it takes to get you into a drift, or a little tap on handbrake or brake (or it can happen accidentally as a result of bad cornering and clipping the destructible environment).

Once you're in a drift, the problem becomes control. If you look at drivers in real life racing, or FH4 drivers on Youtube using the in-cabin camera, you'll notice that they are often frantically turning left and right repeatedly to maintain control during a drift. If you only steer as normal, say left into a left turn, you may not drift as well as you could (or you might oversteer and spin out completely).

Braking and acceleration are important to keep it going too. Acceleration can save you when you feel like you ought to brake, because it can pull you through and out of the curve, and sometimes acceleration is going to ruin everything. This isn't an easy thing to explain because so much of it is experience and feel. I don't know if this is superstition or a real thing, but I often feel like if I pump the accelerator a couple of times rather than simply pressing it during a drift, it gets a cleaner response from the car.

The Drift Club story mode was what cracked it for me (I did the Fortune Island one first, and I think that's the best one because Fortune Island is entirely built around drifting). I also did it during winter, which possibly made it harder than it needed to be, but I learned a huge amount extremely quickly so I recommend you give that a try.

[BonPadre]

The answer above is a very good answer.

May I just state the very first most forgotten part of drifting ? Turn all assists OFF. It seems obvious, but if not done, drifting is near impossible, as you will have all the game's help doing all they can to avoid you from drifting, sliding, approaching a turn too fast, etc.

And it's widely accepted that drifting on Forza Horizon is easyer on a controller than on a driving wheel. (I personally don't know, I only play with controller)

Then it's also a very good idea to learn how to tune your cars for drifting (or get some good tunes from the shared tunes) as I personally found the base drifting cars not to my taste and style of drifting.
Then I also LOVE to drift lighter and less powerfull cars, so I have a very fun MX5 for drifting that I love and yet it's not the car that will score the most points. Just the cooler one to drift for me.
Share code is 386 060 282
Just note that it's truely a Road drifting car, don't take it on gravel or dirt, it's won't be any good as it's a RWD. For off road drifting I use a AWD drift setup on a BMW Z3 that I got from the shared tunes.

If you are after a good drifting setup guide, I recommand HokiHoshi's ones on YT
https://youtu.be/BfZHOWwR5Gw
But that will also need you to learn the bases of how to properly tune a "standard" car from same YT channel.
https://youtu.be/WM7_3NGGUoQ