what kind of drift do you like

[karras85]

well... its about 3 kind of drift mode... (i think there are ohters but i didnt find it yet)

oversteer under aceleration and understeer under desaceleration...
(control the drift with the gas pedal and the strening wheel....)
or

understeer under aceleration and oversteer under desaceleration
(control the drift with the gas pedal and the strening wheel...)
or

oversteer under aceleration and desaceleration...
(control only with the strening wheel...)

 

[sicbeing]

I enjoy getting the car sideways.

 

[dorykiiing]

well... its about 3 kind of drift mode... (i think there are ohters but i didnt find it yet)

oversteer under aceleration and understeer under desaceleration...
(control the drift with the gas pedal and the strening wheel....)
or

understeer under aceleration and oversteer under desaceleration
(control the drift with the gas pedal and the strening wheel...)
or

oversteer under aceleration and desaceleration...
(control only with the strening wheel...)

you forgot one very inmportant thing that you can control with it your drifts...
the BRAKE!
i think has so much meaning it reaches the throtle use in control of the car..just think a litle about it...

 

[Niels]

Well I dont want to be limited when accelerating, I dont like holding back on the speed cause my angle is getting too much so I'll prefer a tad of understeer on acceleration:tup: Then the brakes are for oversteer, so it still fits my brake-drift style.

 

[Rookie_One]

im for the first (you should do a pool..)

 

[nk4e]

im for the first (you should do a pool..)

Poll*
o.0 I think there has been threads on the same topic before if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Shrome]

I like fienting, if you don't know what fienting is ill explain it. It's were you turn your car into the cruve then parllel that into the turn making a drift.

 

[Platnom]

i'm with shrome, but sometimes getting in a hi-powered car and a long hi-speed turn and go sideways with just the gas, makes my day...lol

 

[karras85]

you forgot one very inmportant thing that you can control with it your drifts...
the BRAKE!
i think has so much meaning it reaches the throtle use in control of the car..just think a litle about it...

if you enter in the correct speed you dont need to use the brake...
and to slow down i use some oversteer..... is leess than the brake.. (the brake effect) and is more precise...

 

[dking]

if you enter in the correct speed you dont need to use the brake...
and to slow down i use some oversteer..... is leess than the brake.. (the brake effect) and is more precise...

what about the corners you overspeed into....then wouldn't brake drifting work better...

Drifting is a combination of many techniques....one isn't necessarily better then another. Use different techniques depending on the situation.

 

[Swift]

what about the corners you overspeed into....then wouldn't brake drifting work better...

Drifting is a combination of many techniques....one isn't necessarily better then another. Use different techniques depending on the situation.

Thank you!!!

There are different corners and they simply CAN'T be drifted the same way with the same technique. There are some corners that I don't touch the brake at all. But in hairpin turns, it's rather impossible to not use the brake. In ceratain links, you HAVE to use the brake. So, don't try to generalize. Understand all the various techniques and use the one that best suits your style and the situation.

 

[dorykiiing]

if you enter in the correct speed you dont need to use the brake...
and to slow down i use some oversteer..... is leess than the brake.. (the brake effect) and is more precise...

what about the corners you overspeed into....then wouldn't brake drifting work better...
Drifting is a combination of many techniques....one isn't necessarily better then another. Use different techniques depending on the situation.

Thank you!!!

There are different corners and they simply CAN'T be drifted the same way with the same technique. There are some corners that I don't touch the brake at all. But in hairpin turns, it's rather impossible to not use the brake. In ceratain links, you HAVE to use the brake. So, don't try to generalize. Understand all the various techniques and use the one that best suits your style and the situation.

i think that 2 replies give the meaning of the brake in drifting...

 

[DQuaN]

This is my first post in the drifting forum I think. I just saw this thread and thought I'd add my $0.02.

oversteer under aceleration and understeer under desaceleration...
(control the drift with the gas pedal and the strening wheel....)

Err.... FR????

or

understeer under aceleration and oversteer under desaceleration
(control the drift with the gas pedal and the strening wheel...)

Err.... FF????

or

oversteer under aceleration and desaceleration...
(control only with the strening wheel...)

Err.... Horribly unbalanced car?

 

[karras85]

i never use a ff car to drift...
only fr...
the first is for cars like sileghty
the second like the mercedes slk 230 kompresor
and the third like the rx7

i prefer let the car stock... and rise the power if is absolutly necesary

 

[jammyozzy]

I suppose it depends on the corner. For fast sweeping corners I prefer to simply tap the brake to throw the weight forwards as I chuck the car into the corner, and then simply hold it with the wheel (see the third corner at the 'Ring, and Klostertal I think.)

For most other corners, I prefer feigning and then controlling with the steering wheel and the throttle.

 

[N35QU1K]

I like drifts that are faster than grips (only in GT4, if you trued to outrun a grip racer with drifting, he'd probably remove you from his rear view mirror very quickly, unless you're Takumi Fujiwara. Luckily for us, GT4 AI is stupid and tends to be chickeny on corners, often slowing down tooo much.

 

[rsmithdrift]

I like LOOOOOOONG low angle, high speed link drifting through a set of turns. Like the S's at Suzuka, or Infinion, or Deep Forest, Trial Mtn, High Speed Ring, Autumn Ring, etc.

And BTW, You can drift while braking, accelerating, coasting, e-braking (obviously) just going down a straight away turning the car sideways back and forth, and what you'll find is that almost all drifting at a pro level is dynamic drifting. Meaning you are using the gas, brake, ebrake, clutch (damn GT4 lacking this) and steering movements to create oversteer the whole way through a set of turns.

Your options should have been:

Speed Drifting: Which is low angle, high speed, on line race drifting for the fastest time.

Show Drifting: Which is High angle, low speed, preferably on line, where the aim is the most smoke and drift show possible were time takes a back seat.

A Mix: Which is what I choose/described above. It's low angle, high speed, on line, but still aiming for drift affect instead of speed.

 

[luftrofl]

what about the corners you overspeed into....then wouldn't brake drifting work better...

While your statement is correct, he was talking about corners with the correct speed, not corners that you enter with too much speed.

You don't need the brake to maintain a drift in any corner(provided that your car is set up correctly), it just helps... a lot, much in the same way that braking can help grip lines..

 

[Master_Yoda]

I like it when i get sooo sideways in my Alfia, i start doing controlled 360's, and lose control after 2 or 3, and then all hell brakes loose. But then it's not much of a drift anymore...

 

[karras85]

I like LOOOOOOONG low angle, high speed link drifting through a set of turns. Like the S's at Suzuka, or Infinion, or Deep Forest, Trial Mtn, High Speed Ring, Autumn Ring, etc.

And BTW, You can drift while braking, accelerating, coasting, e-braking (obviously) just going down a straight away turning the car sideways back and forth, and what you'll find is that almost all drifting at a pro level is dynamic drifting. Meaning you are using the gas, brake, ebrake, clutch (damn GT4 lacking this) and steering movements to create oversteer the whole way through a set of turns.

Your options should have been:

Speed Drifting: Which is low angle, high speed, on line race drifting for the fastest time.

Show Drifting: Which is High angle, low speed, preferably on line, where the aim is the most smoke and drift show possible were time takes a back seat.

A Mix: Which is what I choose/described above. It's low angle, high speed, on line, but still aiming for drift affect instead of speed.

in some turns like the last of gand valley speedway you can make a high speed and high angle drift..... but you need a car with much countersteer or set the toe to have more countersteer....

 

[pzygho_freak]

You didn't explain the first post well enough. Nevermind that now.

But my favourite drift would be standardly on initiating a drift with braking and turning at the exact same time, otherwise just mash the gas.

 

[Stanley^Carter]

my type of drifting: enter corner with the fastest possible entry speed, greatest possible angle achieved, and drift close to the apex and drifted wide towards the exit, now that's what I call a great drift.

Basically that's what D1gp is doing anyways.

 

[Drifter_K]

Depends if I'm competitive racing or not. Most of the time, I like going out to the walls and edges [Riding the wall]. That's stylist If not, then I'm Outing, Inner, Outing with multiple drifting techniques used.

 

[omnispeed]

I like the one where the car goes vroom vroom weeeeeeeeerrrrrrh vroom around corners. yay

 

[Niels]

I like LOOOOOOONG low angle, high speed link drifting through a set of turns. Like the S's at Suzuka, or Infinion, or Deep Forest, Trial Mtn, High Speed Ring, Autumn Ring, etc.

And BTW, You can drift while braking, accelerating, coasting, e-braking (obviously) just going down a straight away turning the car sideways back and forth, and what you'll find is that almost all drifting at a pro level is dynamic drifting. Meaning you are using the gas, brake, ebrake, clutch (damn GT4 lacking this) and steering movements to create oversteer the whole way through a set of turns.

Your options should have been:

Speed Drifting: Which is low angle, high speed, on line race drifting for the fastest time.

Show Drifting: Which is High angle, low speed, preferably on line, where the aim is the most smoke and drift show possible were time takes a back seat.

A Mix: Which is what I choose/described above. It's low angle, high speed, on line, but still aiming for drift affect instead of speed.

I like your style

I have tried to drift with the handbrake lately, because I got bored of the normal drifting. Anyways, simply put: the thing is useless. I think the e-brake drift method isn't realistic at all in GT4, and untill they fix it for GT5 we cant really add it to the GT4 drift styles. It's just a worthless technique, plus it's damn hard to find the O-button on a DFP while countersteering lol, but that might not apply to everyone here

The e-brake looks exciting in most of the drift video's. It's not smooth at all and it just throws you into massive oversteer if you dont look out. I'd really like to do that in a game sometimes but GT4 really sucks at replicating that.