Drift Adventure needs a serious overhaul

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Seriously, what the hell is this? How did we go so far backwards from Horizon 4?

First off, the time it gives you to set your laps is way too short. Remember FH4, when you got 6 or 7 minutes to set your laps? Yeah, now we have 4. Four minutes is barely enough to set two laps on both tracks (throw the second lap idea out the window if you spin even once), and it only leaves you time to set one on some circuits (Plaza comes to mind). Let’s go back to 7 minutes, please.

Then there’s the lack of drivetrain restrictions. Oh. My. God. This is absolutely infuriating. Remember when we had lobbies separated by drivetrain? Yeah, that was nice. In Forza Horizon, AWD is objectively better for points drifting than RWD. It’s just how it is. So why are we throwing RWD drifters into lobbies to get absolutely decimated by the AWDbois? How hard is it to seperate them?

It’s blatantly obvious how many people use AWD to get ridiculously high scores, so why don’t they have their own lobbies? All of the people putting out smoke from four tires, holding perpendicular angle for long periods without spinning out or making corrections, and scoring 200-400k points more than the highest ranked RWD drifters? Yeah, they’re using AWD. It’s really frustrating for those of us who want to drift competitively against other RWD players.

And that leads into my final point: Custom Drifting. We have custom racing, why not custom drifting? Why can’t we choose our own class and drivetrain lobbies. Believe it or not, Forza, I don’t always want to drift in A Class. Sometimes I want to drift in S1. Hell, even throw in B and S2 just for the hell of it. And as mentioned above, let us choose drivetrain specific lobbies as well.

This post is not to bash on AWD drifters (I’ll be the one to say that it absolutely is “real drifting”), it’s not to bash Playground, it’s to try and draw some attention towards a severely overlooked feature of this game that needs a complete overhaul.

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I 100% agree with this. I just want to be beat fairly. Im no pro at this game but i tend to sit higher in the lobbies when i play but i barley win when im playing against issetta and 959 and willys and all the other permanent AWD cars. Also one other thing i think needs to be changed and its with the use of tire compound, tires should be specific to the type of racing your doing.

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It’s always the Isettas and the Willys Jeeps getting 900k points at Plaza Azul…also the Renault 4L. I’ve seen a few of those lately too.

It’s so bad that I only scored my first championship win in Drift Adventure thursday. It’s been a mess for months.

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I only played DA for the accolades and just drove around the tracks normally but even I noticed it with the Isettas + Jeeps.

I think them being meta drift cars is honestly 10 times more stupid than the Bone Shaker being the equivalent in racing, yet this is genuinely the first time I can remember seeing it being mentioned.

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You know there’s something wrong with your game’s drift physics when a Willys MB Jeep from World War II is the best drift car in the game, along with a BMW microcar.

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The best dirt s900 car i have is the mclaren senna. The best dirt a800 is a holden torana, the best s998 dirt is the hotwheels bad to the blade. The best cc a800 is ford gt 05. The game is fine :rofl:

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In the drift community tab there is a little bit more mention of this but not much and those threads are far down the list now.

Ive come to notice more people want fixes for the eliminator and the rivals/pr leaderboards. So those threads stay higher in the feed. Also i think the drift community is the smallest out of the horizon community and most people that drift in this game use the AWD/meta build cars

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I only played Drift Adventure in Horizon 4 casually for a brief time, and honestly, one of my main complaints was the length of events. Someone usually dominated the whole field within the first minute, so seven minutes felt like an eternity to get through since I knew first place wasn’t even an option. Haven’t played it in Horizon 5 yet (mostly because I’m not bothering to pay for online when there isn’t much worth doing), but from an outsider looking in, four minutes seems like a welcomed change.

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Not to be rude but it just sounds like you gave up to quickly. Instead of looking at the other players score as to far away to catch you should have looked at it like a challenge to try and catch them. Also you can and should turn off the lap and position that way you cant watch the scores tallying, u dont feel the pressure of a clock counting down, and lastly not constantly reminded of what position your currently in and that you can focus on what really matters YOUR DRIFTING

5 minute timed drift session i think would be good

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Splitting by drivetrain would be the at the top of my list along with some benefit from participating. In 4 ranked at least gave a boost to the playlist completion. In 5 I have the drift badge and don’t need more.

Completing a lap and waiting for the end since you knowingly can’t finish a second is a disappointment. If you slid around a checkpoint or otherwise dq’ed your lap you finish with a 0. Some shorter circuits are fine but longer needs another minute or two.

The meta AWD cars continued from 4 at least with the Willys and Isetta. I can often/usually still podium in 5 but any semi-decent player in them will be ahead by quite a bit. When I look at the results though I try to pick out the RWD list to see where I actually finished. I’ll exclude the AWD meta and cars that looked like AWD drifting on the circuit. Points just aren’t even between RWD and AWD so any comparison is pointless.

The nice thing about 5 is that I don’t have any AWD drift cars to set up, keep or manage. I doubt anything will change in 5 but it would be a disappointment if they split drivetrains but just had them come up randomly like 4 did.

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When they split the drivetrains you allow the player to choose

Go to horizon open select drifting then option rwd awd click one and you get put into that waiting lobby

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You and I would give that choice, but would they? They haven’t so far in 4 or 5, and 4 was split, so…?

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I believe that cars should be allowed in drift adventures, only on stock, sports, racing and drift tires. No slicks, no winter tires, and especially no tires for drag.

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Now that is a better compromise.

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The way i see it is the stock, street, and sport tires should be allowed in any racing mode.

Semi slick, slick, drift, drag, rally, snow, and offroad race tire should be specific to there respective “tracks”

But it is your play how you like

Side note: maybe the reason for shorter drift time is because nobody ever drifted till the end of the time limit.

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Again, players stop when they know they can’t make a full lap. There is no point in continuing to drift for points.

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Just cause you cant finish a full lap doesnt mean you should just stop. Do you stop racing just cause the first player finished the race and you only have 30 seconds left?

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Unless you’ve really messed up everything in the session you can’t improve your score with a partial lap.

Drift and race aren’t comparable in how you are competing. Drift finishing placement is about score in a lap. It’s not a race. If racing was based on your best lap time rather than completing 3 laps you would see the same there.

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Well that depends if you are second or last :thinking:

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the game does still award skill points for continuing, and drift is a pretty good way of building up a good chain

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