Can someone please explain to me, in coherent comprehensive English, what about drifting you find so appealing?
Yes this is a leading question, as I just don’t get it? It is an endless bout of frustration for me, and having bucket list items tied to it has truly sapped all the enjoyment out of the game. I have tried (literally for hours - days now of game time) to practice endlessly (across the whole series of Forza games) to get better, but there is obviously something about it that is fundamentally eluding me.
I just need someone to spell out what it is the encourages Turn10 to keep putting this mode in the game?
I think you really have to be involved with drifting ie: know everything about it, how it works, how to drive a drift car, setups, steering angle grip specs, tire compounds and what it means to be beside another car at close to 100mph inches from each others doors to get the rush and love drifting. That’s when you know how to do it and why you like it. For me it’s all about proximity, knowing I can match the lead driver almost EXACTLY, within inches of their car at high speeds is why I love drifting. That’s my short little answer
Drifting isn’t for everyone that’s very well known. To me it’s just about everything I want from Forza, especially in the Horizon series. It’s a constant challenge, it’s not just maxing out cars and driving in a straight line down some runway. (Personally nothing bothers me more than the airport racers) You can build a car and throw it at a corner as hard as you can. Driving it on the edge of too much power you’re spinning out of control, too little and your smashing into a wall. It’s a skill sport. It’s not just maxing out a car because you can, you have to go through and find a mangable power to weight to grip ratio. While continously going through the tune and fine tuning and fine tuning and more fine tuning to make the car perfect, and it never will be no matter how many times you adjust something. It’s a never ending game of what can I do better, what can the car do better, how far can I push it. I get so intrigued into each and every car I build that before I know it I just spent 6 hours in between tuning and drifting, and it’s 5 in the morning. Finding the perfect road with corner to corner, holding the powerband just right to throw the car left to right to left to right without spinning out or gripping up. Then once you find that road get your group of friends and slide next to each other watching them throw massive angle and trying to match it. Or trying to hold the exact same line, or just cruising with your pals and just flowing through and mountain pass or the dense city. I relate it to snowboarding, and as an avid snowboarder I love just carving back and forth floating on the snow and feeling free. That’s how drifting is; floating along the pavement without limitations (aside from traffic lol) And it’s a FACT nothing gets crowds louder and panties wetter than rev limiters banging and tires smoking. That’s A reason why I love drifting.
It’s a way to connect with people. Nothing is better than making that sick tsuiso, or chase run - in my case, of course. Some people like it for the points and angle they can get, others for the tuning they do on their home-grown projects so they can slither about in clouds of smoke throughout Australia. But for you, I suppose it would make more sense If I said that we are an extremely vocal (and sometimes whiny) community, and perhaps because of that Turn 10 and Playground Games have decided to humor us a little with drift zones and the like.
Regardless, I would like to be pedantic and say that drifting isn’t necessarily a “mode” like it is in, say, Need for Speed. In forza it’s something that any car can do, given that the driver has the skill to manipulate the car into oversteer and guide it through the corner, regardless of drivetrain after its all said and done.
That in mind, I would be more than happy to help you in any issues you might be having. There are quite a few aspects of drifting - build composition, tuning style and efficiency, driving skill, and even (pardon my initial d nonsense here) simply the way you are as a person sometimes reflects in your driving. It never hurts to learn from others.
Tl:Dr my gamer tag is Cody Ghastface. Feel free to message me sometime to get a bit of drifting help, if you like.
Drifting to me is just a totally different Motorsport that any other. It’s not about who’s fastest, it’s not about who has the biggest engine (or shouldn’t be at least), and it’s not about who has the most power. in terms of competition it’s a way to show off your style and skill against another and gives you the opportunity to really push your car to limits it was never supposed to reach. In a more relaxed or Keep Drifting Fun sense, like Cody said, it’s a way to connect with others and display a totally different style of driving and car build. I enjoy drifting for a multitude of reasons, but mainly that it is just plain fun and a pure rush of adrenaline that running a 1/4 mile or running a circuit for laps on end doesn’t give me. To each their own though. As said before, it isn’t for everyone.
First and foremost I just LOVE grinding a difficult section until I get it exactly right. This is also the best way to make a tune I think, you can’t judge a tune if your driving isn’t consistent. The festival sites are a nice place to do this (apart from surfers ofc, that’s on a road). Build a car, baseline it, start driving and then tweak it little by little until it’s as good as it gets.
Secondly what I love most about controlling any kind of vehicle, be it a snowboard, mountainbike, longboard, car or anything, is the limit of grip. While driving / riding I only really feel in control when I’m just on the limit of losing control. And learning the techniques to be able to do this is immensely rewarding to me.
Finally it’s so good to meet like minded people who are also able to stick those lines every time. And drive very very close to them! That’s the best feeling because everything I typed above comes together in one big melting pot of skill and balance (with lots of noise and smoke of course :D).
Anyway, if you just want to beat the drift zones to get your fans and xp on, just download a beginner xp / driftzone tune, use it and never look back. On those bucket lists, once your driving improves enough you should be able to beat them without much trouble.
One last note: Make sure you have assists like traction control and stability control OFF! If you leave even one of these on drifting will be quite impossible.
I just think that it’s fun, and I like sliding around a corner rather than braking and turning. I like to drift low-hp RWD cars and high-hp AWD cars with a rear bias. It’s also cool to slide just a few inches away from the wall.
Personally, I could never get anything to drift in fh2 and fm6. I completely gave up even trying, I didn’t see the use. In fh3, I made a huge effort to figure it out. I have sort of figured it out after a ton of work. Drifting helps immensely in the game. It sort of replaces using the brakes… just slide around the corner and you’re off… under speed. FYI, just turn off all the nanny helper settings, you’ll have no choice but to figure it out. The game is ten time better drifting.
Drifting is basically as close as you can get to something like skateboarding in motorsports. It’s very expressive and artistic in a lot of ways, not just about optimization. The drift community is also just about having fun and being dumbasses in cars, even through competitions people are laughing. I love all forms of motorsports but drifting has always been exceptionally engaging to me as someone that likes technical and creative activities.
For me I began drifting as a means to turn because for me its easier and more forgiving than trying to brake and turn especially when driving uncooperative cars (not to mention more fun imo). Its harder than it looks tbh and it feels so rewarding when you nail a corner just perfectly. I’m talking tires spinning, engine screaming, debris getting kicked up into the air and you’re at the edge knee deep into a corner all the while making adjustment as you try to maintain the right speed/rpms and or angle without losing it all…Fun stuff.
There is a lot that goes into drifting, Understanding what does what when tuning is extremely important and thats why I do my own tunes so I can adjust it to my liking as opposed to loading someone else’s tune. In general I run a drift/racer combo setup because thats how I race the majority of th time and like another member posted, I prefer low HP RWD or high HP AWD but its all subjective.
The reason I drift is because of two things, One is because its what Street Racers do and Two is because of the Adrenaline Rush, Think about it ,you controlling a car by throttle control is you don’t control the throttle just right you fail the drift, to much throttle and you spin out, to little and your car will start to take the corner like a standard car, and by the steering, you steer into the slide, I mean its just a adrenaline rush you got to experience. Your car is on the edge of spinning out but you control the slide, Its like Doc Hudson from cars said “If you going hard enough left you’ll find you self turning right” and he was right about that.
Tbh, I started using manual when I drifted, and automatic when I did races. Little did I know I got to understand my car better, and got accustomed to using manual for all my daily activities.
Not saying you need to have manual settings to drift. Just a personal experience.
The other reason is the satisfaction of drifting around every corner whIle passing your friends and enemies in Online Adventure. I find it crazy to see a drift car keeping pace with grip car around the corner, while keeping a decent pole position if not taking first place. Oh the insanity!! XD
