I have the best internet connection you can rent here, but I have a lot of problems online in multiplayer. Forza Motorsport 2023 quits from time to time just before the race. And that on the X-Box Series X! This doesn’t happen in FM7, FM6 or FM5 and even in FM4 I rarely have such crashes.
The whole game just collapses. Shortly before the start or depending on the mood of the game. And this happens several times a day, almost every hour.
I don’t particularly care for drifting, but there’s lots of people who do and now they can enjoy that.
When I want a break from circuit racing I’ll go rallying, and I have a perfectly good game for that already so I don’t need it in Forza.
I played Forza - Horizon and Motorsport - exclusively for almost ten years. Since October 2023, I’ve also bought a few other racing games. However, drifting was never my passion. I don’t enjoy it, but others should enjoy it.
You need to drift, to unlock a drift car.
So if you don’t care about drifting, why do you care about needing to drift to unlock a drift car?
I don’t care about drifting. So I sure don’t care about missing out on unlocking another drift Mustang when I’ve just been gifted 3 for free that I’ll never drive anyway.
I passionately hate drifting. I don’t care if it’s there for those that like it, as long as it’s an optional side activity. DiRT 3 started working it into the core career mode, and even though later on I had the opportunity to just avoid it, early on it wasn’t optional. That really hurt the game for me.
I voted yes only to support the addition of drift content, but the drift mode itself I don’t need. Not in the form it exists right now. Without dedicated drift zones it’s kinda the same as NFS Underground 2 where you have to just grind for the useless points on the straights with no attention to being technical in parts of the track that matter. So that system seems very shallow, outdated and not even fun like it was in original GRID, which had a risk/reward factor with multiplier that rewarded continuous drift.
From Forza Motorsport I expect at least something like drift mode in GRID Autosport, which had drift zones with inside and outside clipping points that boosted your score if you drifted close enough to them. If you hit any of the cones, you lost the ability to score in that zone until next lap. It demanded full control of your car through technical and sometimes narrow sections and not only did you have to survive the section, but perfect it as well if you wanted to be competitive. You were rewarded for your actual skill and not just sliding across the track barely controlling your car.
I’d argue the addition of point system in FM7 actually somewhat ruined drift lobbies since it motivated people to drift solo for points that never mattered, as opposed to engaging with other players in more challenging activities which actually help you get good and set up your car properly.
For now though, I only expect an open drift meetup lobby with RWD and maybe sport tires lock and pray that they don’t force the scoring system on players. In FM it was never about points - just doing tandems or trains with random people, which in itself demands full control of your car - more than current scoring system. I’m all for a good competitive system, but it’s not the current one.
I’m having troubke dtifting on my wheel. No, I am not about to grab a controller and bust out some quick 20,000k sessions. If I cant get it to happen with my wheel, then it aint happening.
finally they added it ( almost ) still waiting for the drift upgrades being available ( tires… gear etc )… and i wish on rivals as it was on older ones where we can use ANY Rwd car that we want on any tracks… is “funny” that you can’t use a FD car on a drift rival too…
back in the day we had a forum section for drifting… good memories…
p.s. drifting on horizon is really boring except the mountain…
I’d rather see rally cross, point to point etc but I know that some people like drifting so it’s good they get what they want. Doesn’t hurt anyone having more options.
tbh by definition u can drift in any car, all u have to do i to use weight transfer to initiate drift on corner entry.
But what we call “drifting” is by definition power slide, u use car power to slide mid and on exit of the corner 
I hope you don't take this reply as being mean, it's just a different opinion. This game has always been about circuit racing. There are really great WRC games out here that are excellent games. Forza Motorsport 23 came out mostly half finished, in need of major changes. Many of those changes have been added. But taking away from the FOCUS of circuit racing for this team seems like an incredibly bad idea.
My point is it's only took them a year to get the game up to a standard that is out of Early Access. Asking this team to diversify into dirt racing or anything else would be a major task, and it is a task that I believe they are not capable of.
Exactly this. The fact is by this game not releasing with this simple drift mode, it basically lost them thousands of players. Many of which were existing forza players nevermind new ones.
I don’t take it the wrong way but Forza has been missing lots of Motorsport types. Motorsport isn’t just circuits.
I’m very happy we have some kind of drift mode. Shame it’s not fleshed out.
I get your meaning, but this team has proven that they haven't mastered circuit racing, and many QoL issues that were already included in older titles. The fact that they have removed good features, added bad new ones, some of which they have had to remove, gives me pause to think they are ready to add a new surface type. Not to mention, the new FFB and whatever other feature might be necessary to get it right. I also think most people here would agree that Forza Horizon has many of these features already fleshed out, although they are on the more arcade side.
So why not just play Horizon, DiRT Rally or EA WRC?
I’d rather a lot more single player career series.
I was suggesting that myself, in my original reply to CurriedCat earlier in the thread. I believe Horizon, DR1 and 2, and the EA WRC are much better choices. The person I was responding to suggested that Forza Motorsport needed to add more race types that wasn’t just circuit racing.
I agree about rallye racing. But, to be fair, I can’t imagine racing disciplines such as drift, drag, and oval really being that difficult for T10 to handle. Maybe not in a thorough fleshed out way like circuit. But I can see them continuing to add them. They’re all road based and would use virtually the same physics. Happy to see drifting added to the game. Tried it last night and realized how bad I was at it. Lol. Will try again with some lower hp cars later.
i like the addition of drift rivals as its something new in the game finally but all i really wanted was a public drift hopper lobby. Can do a couple races online then spend an hour messing around in a drift lobby where its carefree