I encountered an annoying little problem today during a forzathon live event. We were at the Riverford drift zone, which normally is just like any other drift zone. However, with winter season, it is totally covered with snow, meaning you can’t actually see the bare dirt areas that you need to drift in to get your points. As many might know, you can’t just be inside the flags, you have to keep your rear tyres either on tarmac, or bare dirt in the offroad sections, while drifting to get points. When totally snow covered, you have to just try as much as possible to stay on the driving line and hope you are still in the scoring zone.
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Yeah i found this very annoying too. Also are they more narrow? I’m really having a hard time with these winterdriftzones for some reason…
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I don’t think the width has changed, the difference is that we can no longer see the good areas from the bad ones - normally you can see the edge of the tarmac / dirt and know that if your back wheels slide outside that the scoring stops. In the snow everything is white so the boundary between good and bad for drifting is now invisible. The flags give you a rough indication of where the course is, but not the absolute limits.
I was thinking exactly the same when trying to drift on those fully snow-covered roads. It seems that the zone where the drift registers is barely the width of your car. It must be a bug.
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Not just you, I noticed the same last night. Was in a forzathon with 1 other person and the two of us just gave up.
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I’m having a terrible time with drifting this game. Mind you I’m not a drifter. However I was able to 3 Star all DZ in FH3 and that was prior to them dumbing down a couple of the hard one (which I tried over and over until getting). I can’t say it came easy but 3 try’s for 50% of them and once I was in someone’s A class Torana I was killing quite a few DZ.
in FH4 I’ve yet to 3 Star Any drift zones.
Does anyone have an A class or lower drift car.
I loved the C class old drift car of DJS and I did most in that or up to A class and everything out there seems to be S1 or more.
Would love to be able to get my mojo back. Thx
I’m pretty bad at drifting but managed to get level 10 with the Formula Drift Viper
I’m with you on the class thing but I found a S2 holden monaro that all you do is leave it in 4th gear. The gears are very very very short but it’s a hell of a drift car. It did take 3 or 4 tries for some layouts due to bad lines and not realizing fast enough the manual with clutch is not good for drifting.
I’ll update this post for the tuner later. The guy is regularly in the top 5 in the world for drift scores and I can see why.
At any rate I 3 starred all but 2 events yesterday in the snow. The two I missed out on were 2 stars. I couldn’t see the layout well and will wait until snow season is over to finish those.
IMO the easiest drift car in the game is the BMW isetta, and as you can see here: https://youtu.be/AORM6Schl5A Every zone to 3 stars in one take, and trust me, i SUCK at drifting.
The Tune is B672, and is called ‘#1 Drift In Game’ by me ‘waznewz’ Disable traction control, and stability control, Manual gears, then 3 or 4th gear, and of you go, want the back out, apply a bit of E-brake, it handles sooo nice.
Found this insanely annoying at the shepherds crook drift zone today during forzathon
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The snow covered zones are significantly more narrow. I have 3 stars on every drift zone except Shepard’s Crook and I didn’t even start trying to 3 star then until winter. That was a mistake. Each snow covered zone took an hour. Shepard’s Crook I just gave up after 5 hours. I drifted direct middle a few times and could hear the score counter sound effect but no points accumulated. This happened more than a dozen times on Shepard’s Crook.
I’ll have to wait till next week to 3-star that zone. I don’t know if it’s intentional or a bug, but snow covered zones are much more narrow. You have to be literally perfect.
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Right there, now. My last star too.
I’m so bad at drifting it doesn’t make much difference 
But seriously, it’s harder if you can’t tell the zone borders. I’d prefer it if they had gone the full length and created seasonal PR stunts and story events.
For Winter the Devs could solve the problem easily: an optional HUD overlay showing the zone area or just its borders.
Yeah that would work, and would match the recent addition of track margin views to FM7. It is crazy. I’ve managed to get rank 9 in drift run but am having to leave the last grind until after winter, as it just isn’t fun even trying.
With all the hype around seasons. I kind of expected there to be different skill zones tailored to the geographies and conditions. I also expected events involving racing on the frozen lake, because that’s kind of how they pitched it to us!
Tuner was DiViNCi TEMPLAR. I guess he likes assassin’s creed? Idk. Lol.
I actually wouldn’t mind if they made drifting like they do clean racing, as long as you have two tires on the road it should count.
Yeah, I found this annoying. Sometimes your car is even wider/longer than the roads themselves.
AFAIK in FM7, the drift score still scores you as long as you have at least 1 or 2 wheels on the road, so this game should do the same in most parts.
Had this problem too. Well within the flags, looking like I’m square on the road but getting very little drift points before it stops counting them. mid slide.
i noticed during a live event i wasn’t getting many drift points but yet i was getting drift skill points.
I just did another Live event at the Riverford drift zone (mentioned in my OP). As usual, the heavy snow cover prevents anyone from being able to actually see the part of the road where drift points get counted. This time though, I noticed something really messed up. I was trying out different lines through the corner next to the stone building to see where the score area was at. First, the score area seems to be narrower than your car is, and sits right about where the driving line shows on the ground.
Second, it doesn’t seem to count all of your points on that specific corner. You can hear the little point counter sound, but no points actually accumulate. During a Live event, this is a serious pain because people have to waste so much time going up and down the road trying to get enough drift points to move on to the next round. If there are enough cars in the match, it’s ok (but still tedious), but when there are only 3-4 cars, it takes too much time.
I also went back on my own time (not in a Forzathon Live match) to see if there were any changes. Same problems with the scoring zone even in freeroam. I also noticed that most of the drift zone flags are missing during the Live event (only two sets of flags at the top and bottom of the zone, the rest are missing), but present in normal freeroam.
EDIT: Now that spring is here, I was able to re-run the Riverford drift zone in a Live event, and it is much easier to score points without the snow cover. The bare dirt scoring margins are clearly visible, and I was able to get drift points in what seemed like a much wider zone than with the snow. That tells me that the snow cover does actually influence the width of the scoring area, at least in this particular drift zone.