Spec me a pretend drift machine

merlin · 19 Sep 2007 at 11:33

This is game related and motors related, but the people in the Console Games & Hardware section of this forum smell a bit, so I'm asking here instead.

Forza 2.

I like to drift.

The cars don't drift.

I have a choice of the following vehicle behaviour: -

1) Get understeer, hit wall head on.
2) Get oversteer, hit wall backwards.

How are drift cars geo set up to drift so progressively?

Do I need some crazy ass camber?

thefullcollapse · 19 Sep 2007 at 11:42

maybe if u take your finger of the right trigger once in a while ull actually drift round the circuit?

paradigm · 19 Sep 2007 at 11:43

thefullcollapse said:
maybe if u take your finger of the right trigger once in a while ull actually drift round the circuit?

Pretty much, its a balance of throttle, very hard with a joypad I find.

merlin · 19 Sep 2007 at 11:46

I've tried being softer on the throttle, but I just can't seem to hold a drift long enough - the car loses momentum or the back end snaps out.

I could just totally suck at it but I wondered whether there is some certain mods you need to do to get the cars to drift better.

-westy- · 19 Sep 2007 at 11:53

i've found on LFS that the front wheels need a fair bit of negative camber.

shimy182 · 19 Sep 2007 at 11:57

Also have strong front negative camber.

I will teach you once i get to Uni as iv already packed...

Anyway.. you need a 400+ BHP car (pref) It must be a RWD (duh) and the only driving support you want on is ABS.

You enter corner wide, Steer hard in to direction, Press A to hand break, the car will immediately go at an angle, You want to control Throttle here, More throttle gives you more angle meaning more counter steer is needed, but if you over cook it the car will Spin, Too less throttle will give you small angle and maybe not drift atall.

I personally shimmy on the throttle as i concentrate on the steering..

If you want to drift a 4WD, you dont counter steer, If you are already at an angle you keep the steering straight with the throttle on around full.

Dup · 19 Sep 2007 at 11:59

A lot of neg camber on the front gives you a sharper/more agressive turn-in giving the back end that chance to snap out of traction.

The tip really in Forza 2 is that Drifing isn't a fast affair. Take it slower and use the power to break traction then start trying to use intertia. Then try link it round corners.

It's difficult with a joypad, but fairly doable.

GreenMint · 19 Sep 2007 at 12:25

If you get an MR2 GT and tune it to high C/Lower B class, properly done you'll have a machine that drifts well, but not too much of a handful, perfect car to get your head around it in the game, then move up to getting an S14, upto 340ish HP and see how you go

Gaijin · 19 Sep 2007 at 13:13

I've found the top secret S15 is splendid at drifting after a few tweaks

Zuban · 19 Sep 2007 at 13:51

Drifting in forza 2 is easy...... if you have the wheel, lots of people use the pad though i dont know how

a stock mk4 supra is fairly easy to drift as its got just enough power and the weight transition isnt to fast, also keeping abs on helps as dabbing the brakes to start a weight transition seems to work better with it on. Taking most rwd cars and giving them about 3.5 degrees of negative camber on the front works pretty well, you just need to pick one with enough power to break traction.

wassap · 19 Sep 2007 at 14:37

The game Imo is ideally suited to a wheel.

Mind you i suck at it with the wheel too

Hilly · 19 Sep 2007 at 17:39

If you fancy a game merlin, add me up on xbox live: h1lleh.

merlin · 20 Sep 2007 at 08:33

Ok, I've won myself a proper drift car & now I'm in business! Miiiles better.

I was trying to drift the bog standard cars and they just weren't set up properly or they didn't have enough juice.

hilly said:
If you fancy a game merlin, add me up on xbox live: h1lleh.

Will add you tonight!