Drifting is a bit too easy in this game compared to Forza 5. It’s not a bad thing it’s just drifting should take some skill.
For me personally, I think it’s better. I think it kinda feels like a mix between Forza 4 and Horizon 1, with a hint of Forza 5. I didn’t have Forza 5 for long so I never had a chance to properly get the hang of it, I didn’t enjoy it in the slightest. I think Horizon 2 is loads better for drifting in my opinion.
Edit - to get back on topic a little better, yes it is easier, but it does still require some skill still though I’d say.
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Yes 5 does take a bit of getting used to. Once you do though it feels so much more rewarding. You can pull off so much more angle than in 4, and you can throw it in a lot harder. Horizon just lacks that rewarding feel.
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I could just never get the hang of that twitching, I’ve never been too smooth with my steering, that’s my main reason. I’d imagine it would be more rewarding once you get the hang of it though.
its toned down, you can put your foot down and drift, but you can also give your slides proper throttle control, and they gave that amount of throttle control in horizon 2 that is good imo.
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I think its better because only a hand full was good at FM5. FH2 feels like FM4 which should be easy for most people to drift.
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I personally preferred drifting in FM5. More realistic handling physics and to be a good drifter you had to practice.
Yeah FM5 shows the good and bad drifters. It will take another year for 70% of drifters to get adjusted to the game.
Ummm… I don’t think I can agree with that. Forza 5’s physics were a bit TOO on point, which, in turn made drifting on a controller extremely difficult. In Forza 5, you have to be smooth and easy on the sticks to keep the car under control and anywhere NEAR where you want the car to be lol. So, as for you statement, I’d say that’s a bit too harsh of a criticism. I never considered myself a bad drifter… But I could never once get that “perfect” run down in Forza 5.
Now, as for Horizon 2… I have to agree, it’s just way too easy. But that isn’t a bad thing. No where near a bad thing. In fact, I find it much more rewarding than other Forza titles. Example, back in Forza 2, 3 or 4, where wheel drifters started to boom, there was an ever growing gap in “skill” level between controller drifters and wheel drifters. This isn’t to say controller drifters weren’t as good, they were just too few and far in between. You either had great controller drifters… Or you didn’t. This made it rough for some people that had a close friend and wanted to drift with but one was on a wheel and the other on a controller. Because, let’s be honest, you could be the greatest of friends, but if you weren’t “good” then it wasn’t much fun seeing the person spin… or straighten… or be left behind, etc. So now, it’s easy enough for anyone to pick up a controller, have some sort of basic knowledge of how LIFE works and drift perfectly fine. I feel this game will bridge some gaps and it’ll be much more rewarding to have you and your friends get tandems and have some spectacular runs, you otherwise couldn’t do in other Forza titles. That’s my 2 cents 
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@ JSI Nando: You would think that they would have basic knowledge. Community would be better if most used their brains.
This all depends on how you setup your drift car. Get your settings right and it’s easy. I have some great drift cars in FM5 that handle amazingly and I would flick the sticks left and right and be clutch kicking, handbraking and changing gears.
haha that is very true. In my case I had never drifted in a Forza game before, so learning on 5 was a steep learning curve. It got very easy though once I learned how to tune the cars. With that said when I go back and play 4 it feels so much easier.
Like moi basically. Mind you, I struggled with the tuning more than anything.
Fully agree, it took me some hours (read months) to get round new physics and tuning. Probably it would take much more without help from some “community heroes” like PTG - forum, XE MintyFresh or DIS(Swirly, OldManTiger, Boppinz that YT video of drift tune RX7 made a huge brake for me in FM5, I also understood, a very important thing that tuning a car for yourself is a nessesity if you want to be succesful, I know it takes some time but once you know how it will stay with you for the future, but the best thing is that You can drift absolutely any car you want with right set-up.
Big thanks to all guys I mentioned above.
Guys the famous “community” of FM that everyone talks in past sense, is still here, just a bit different and evolved but setting the example and showing a path for new members to follow.
All in all I like Fh2 drifting, but I still will go back to FM5 when I get a bit bored with FH2 as I found FM5 drifting way more rewarding and exciting, especially “DIS-way”.
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Well it is the past because the new era is full of immature people that look up to the worst youtubers. You are right about setting examples for others. Yes Minty, Swirly,Spitsy, and Norkett has helped some people bloom in this game. There are many others that I forgot to mentioned. My tip is for people to listen and stop being full of themselves . Maybe by FM6 we can have a new breed of good drifters.
Drifting is relatively new for PTG, since myself and Beetfarmer89 joined the team we have started started a drift community over on the PTG forums and are doing our best to make tunes and paints. We were holding FM5 open Tandem Drift Lobbies every monday and met some good and mature bunch of drifters. They are out there
BUT, that rain drifting though… Too much fun
I’ve noticed it seems much easier in this game than past Forzas it is still a ton of fun though.
Not sure if this has a lot to do with it but I used sim steering in fm5 and now use regular
Unfortunately from what I can see from the new breeds of Forza games the community has split into a number of categories: The really good ones like mentioned by Bankai, the bad ones who when taken into the view of a tandem drifter become very annoying to follow and become left out of the community. Then there’s the average guys. They are obviously the in-betweeners that are stuck between the good and the bad. It seems that there is no real transition between the three groups, and from what I can tell, there is no distinct sign of any mixture between them. All the good drifters stay with the good drifters, the average ones attempt to get good enough to become part of a team (again, from a tandem view) that is competitive and very quick, and the bad ones try to improve, but just can’t reach that level yet. I’m part of most of the high end communities that were based on some form of drift competition like VFD and FDA, not to mention proving myself good enough to get placed into the Pro series of FDA and finishing 5th for VFD, but that’s beside the point. What is important to see however is that there is no real connection between other sources of drifting within the entire Forza community, so not everyone can be good.
If there were a way that everyone was able to share their thoughts with equal minds on the matter, then it wouldn’t be so bad. People could learn from one another and possibly not get too harassed when they ask a stupid question that may seem obvious to others. The FM Forums aren’t doing that great of a job right now but I do expect us all to lift our game up just a bit better. This to me is a great way to let people learn from others. I have noticed the PTG crew getting into drifting just that little bit, but advertising that just your guys are willing to help, isn’t actually helping the community that much, relieve Beetfarmer89 of some stress and possibly find a few more that could assist.
Honestly, if the community were to get better at drifting, get to community to do something about it, not just a few small groups like PTG, or FDA (who are now very inactive), get everyone involved and let them decide on how to go about learning. That’s what the drift school was for right? To share opinions with others and bounce ideas/theories from one another? There shouldn’t be any advertising on this forum anyway from what I could tell. If it were a team thread or anything similar to that, I would agree that advertising a single, small group is appropriate, but throwing people’s names out is rude, so if it were to happen, make a thread, I’m sure people on this forum are willing to help out, including me.
Yes, this game is easy to drift on, and yes, to me there is a mixture of older Forza games like FM4 and FH1, but not everyone is good.
Don’t take this in the wrong way, but this is what my side of the story seems to be. Hope you all enjoy.