Drifting Tips ?

[mbutton15]

Drifting has always been a stumbling block for me as I'm also no good in NFS:Shift. Any advice much appreciated.

Mostly I can't even seem to get a drift going. Then when I do, I just spin out so easily.

What car set up do I use ? What throttle, brake, handbrake techniques should I be following?

Sorry, I know these are basic questions, but I'm just that bad at drifting !!

[tampio]

are you using wheel, controller or keyboard? Its quite a big difference between wheel drifting and keyboard drifting.

[mbutton15]

I am using a wheel. It's a very basic 5 year old Logitech Formula wheel.

[outdrive]

You need to play the drifting race in Shift 2 Unleashed to practice, then back here, you can pass them easily.

[Strobe]

Use an outside view of the car.

I tried using the cockpit view and could not see enough of the course nor could not tell how close to anything I was. I used the behind car view and got a much better view and it helped considerably.

I use cockpit view for any other racing.

Setting difficulty to easy and use driving assist will help get through drifting events faster.

Drifting and Gymkhana are both perfectly good wastes of a car...

[mbutton15]

Thanks for the outside car view suggestion, I never would have thought of that !! I have been using bonnet view on everything up til now. I already have the drifting driving assists switched on !!

[Johnny The Fox]

I might be wrong, but the game seems to reward speed more than angle when drifting.
Lightly tapping the handbrake while steering and accellerating (at a speed only slightly higher than the curve demands) sends the car into a fast, easily controlled drift.
I've only used a gamepad, though - no idea if that works with a wheel.

[kschang77]

Countersteer, countersteer, countersteer.

Entry speed is important. If you go too fast, you'll just spin out. The trick is drive fast enough, turn, tap the handbrake to swing the tail DURING the turn, then once tail swings, COUNTERSTEER to maintain angle, but do NOT let off the gas. Throttle control is important.

Try it at HALF throttle, then ramp up later.

[Unlegit_JDMDrift]

Set downforce and height to low. Set differential and suspension stiffness to stiff. Gearing is up to you but I usually put it full short. When you want to start a drift tap the handbrake and turn into the direction you want to slide.

[Ghost]

another thing you can do is called a scandinavian flick. Basically just before a turn you point the car the other direction then quickly back into the turn and the back end will go. Once in slide, just play with the gas and countersteer. Once you get it, it is very easy to hold the slide and also get it to switch of direction quickly when doing the gymkana thing. I have won most of the gold in those events. Gymkana is indeed about speed and chaining very quickly different types of slides. Also you don't always need the handbrake, a quick tap on the brake will upset the balance of the car and kick the back out. It takes practice but you will get there quick.

[kschang77]

Right, forgot about car setup

Accel: full short (1, i.e. all the way left)
Stiffness: full stiff (1)
Downforce: full low (1)
Ride height: good question... high or low? Try medium or full low
Differential: good question... high or low? Try medium or full tight

[Ghost]

differential makes the wheels spin faster or reduces it. I usually keep it medium. I have done on high when I deal with a rear wheel drive just to prevent it from sliding two much and give an even spin on the rear wheel.

[kschang77]

Differential controls how much grip the transmission will send to the tires, i.e. how much slip.

"Tight" means you won't get much grip, but when you do, it'll be evently distributed, and thus, predictable.

"Loose" means you'll get more grip, but it may not be evently distributed across both wheels (or all four wheels).

In drifting events you'll probably want it full tight.

[Sir Phil]

All good tips in here. Something else I will add is to learn to steer the car with the accelerator. Sounds weird but it works;

This doesn't apply as much to Dirt as it does to say Richard Burns Rally but the principle behind it is once the car is in a slide, the wheel won't do much. To keep the car either sliding round the corner or straightening up is the accelerator. Although a rally car will have about 500-720 degrees of steering (I think thats about right), rally drivers rarely turn the wheel as the wheel starts the slide but the accelerator controls it.

Lets just say Phil Price is an amazing instructor :)

[K´town]

Best tip

skip gymkhana ;)

IMO drifting in a SS to hold the speed is different to this useless spinning araound in this gymkhana crap

[Ghost]

Originally posted by Sir Phillis McKraken:

All good tips in here. Something else I will add is to learn to steer the car with the accelerator. Sounds weird but it works;

This doesn't apply as much to Dirt as it does to say Richard Burns Rally but the principle behind it is once the car is in a slide, the wheel won't do much. To keep the car either sliding round the corner or straightening up is the accelerator. Although a rally car will have about 500-720 degrees of steering (I think thats about right), rally drivers rarely turn the wheel as the wheel starts the slide but the accelerator controls it.

Lets just say Phil Price is an amazing instructor :)

Richard Burns Rally, best rally game ever. Wish they would do an updated version, that would be awesome :)