Drifting Questions

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Hey everyone,

I have a few drifting questions if anyone interested in doing some typing :stuck_out_tongue:

  1. Best cars for drift builds?

  2. FWD or RWD?

  3. Why is AWD considered power sliding and not actual drifting?

  4. One of the biggest obstacles you faced when you were learning to drift?

  5. With Blizzard Mountain coming tomorrow, do you think that is good or bad for the drift scene? Why?

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No one? lol

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  1. Literally anything. Most people try to ‘stay authentic’ and use only 80s and 90s jdm cars, but these cars are pretty good at drifting. Muscle cars are pretty good as well. If you can tune well, and are willing to spend the time, you can get almost anything to drift. Mid engine ferraris are the most fun to tune.

  2. I drift all three drive types. FWD has kind of lost its novelty for me due to the horrendous torque steer in the newer games. RWD is the easiest of the three in horizon games, so when I want to just drift around, I hop in a RWD. AWD is for points, silliness, and in some cases speed.

  3. This is when you know you are dealing with amateurs. There are multiple different ways of tuning an AWD car. Most just leave the torque split stock and add race tires, and do in fact powerslide around like idiots, crashing into anything and everything and finishing races early, prompting t10 to install session timers instead of number of laps. Most good tuners and drifters (there are exceptions to every rule, as multiple positive camber tunes have proven me wrong, and I have seen 15 psi race tire tunes in fm4) run anywhere from 75% to 95% rear torque split, and use stock or drag tires (drag tires have low lateral grip, allowing you to extend slides, but are very challenging to use. No, they are not cheating. No, tire spin is not how you get points). This allows the car to easily power over (yes, the awd cars I have can power over), while negating the lack of extended steering lock range. If my front tires could turn almost 90 degrees, I’d probably be less inclined to use AWD . But the theory I have about peoples’ aversion to AWD is that they can’t figure out how to tune or drive an AWD car properly, so they complain all day about how ‘it isn’t REAL drifting’ and ‘hacking the physics’. Any idiot can slide an AWD lambo around and get 28k per lap on catalunya school circuit. Can any idiot tune or drive that lambo to hit 40k per lap? They project their inadequacy unto others, like petty little children. I’d be salty too if I had to drift only RWD in FM6. RWD in that game is not very fun when shooting for rivals leaderboards.

  4. Personal frustration is what was the worst thing for me. But one must spend time failing to eventually find success.

  5. Good for me, because I like rallying and AWD drifting. Bad for tandems, due to the snow physics with and without snow tires (front tires grip, rear tires slip). They really do need to add a mountain that isn’t covered in ice.

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Wow, great answers! I know you’re just being honest but still.

  1. I agree that 80-90’s model cars seem to be the most popular amongst drifters. I was using the 2015(?) 370z and currently tuning a 70’s Toyota (model escapes me at the moment) but I have a terrible habit of punching the gas and in an RWD, I end up spinning out and getting frustrated. I find this interesting because as I have mentioned in a previous post, I own a '65 GTO IRL and drifting (have only attempted a couple of times since tires and suspension aren’t cheap) in it was way easier than the game - with the addition of being preferential to RWD in my own vehicles.

  2. As I stated above, RWD frustrates me in this game but does drift better (for what little I can do) once I can actually get to a suitable place to practice lol. FWD burned out for me after playing the entire NFS series so I am trying to stay away from them as much as possible. FH3 is my first Forza game so I have no previous point of reference for driving overall yet.

  3. Admittedly, I am one of those “idiots” that attempted to use an AWD to try drifting in and ended up just crashing into everything. The allowance of extra HP AWD allows me to handle easier felt more counterproductive in terms of learning to drift. I do race in an AWD car because it is easier to handle when dealing with the congestion (and the a**hole tendencies other players tend to have online) along with tight cornering. I know that it’s “recommended” to move away from this as people see it as a handicap but I know from experience of racing as a whole, just having an AWD is only one of many components needed to win a race.

  4. My biggest frustrations so far learning to drift are learning how to get one started (not in execution and how to moderate throttle once I get into it. I get good ones in but they feel more like luck rather any progressive learning experience.

  5. I’m not experienced enough to answer this but I can say from the few minutes I’ve spent today on the mountain, that it seems like it will be tons of fun finding new places to drift. I can see how trying to tandem could potentially be difficult with timing and spacing. I do agree some canyons (that you can actually fall of off to one’s “end”) like from the NFS days.

Many thanks for taking the time to answer. Plus, I learned a good bit of info…so thank you for that as well :slight_smile:

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bump

Just seeing if anyone else has any input :slight_smile: