Who cares about sim tires!

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I hear a lot of people on this board say things like "you're not drifting unless you do it on sims!" What kind of garbage is that. I don't care if the player is using sims or T8's a drift is a drift. It's all about having fun and making something fun to watch.

Yes, there is a lot of skill involved, especially with the FR drifting. I've tried drifting on sims. It's borderline impossible, at least with a controller. :banghead:

Do you think that people who drift on a regular basis use the stadard all season radial when the drift? I'm thinking no. They would tear that tire apart.

So, I say again. who cares about sim tires! Just play the game, acquire some skill and have fun. If it's on T6's in the front and T4's on the rear then so be it. Just enjoy the game and enjoy the drifting for what it is....fun!
 
Riiight, for the beginners...


It's obvious all you super-pro awesome drifters out there completely missed Ployphony's sole intention for placing simulation tires in the game. I wonder what it could be???
 
Word...although I've been practicing on normal tires lately. When drifting AWD you definitely can't use any kind of sticky tires. I tried it with sims, but the car just didn't turn...heavy heavy understeering. I'm driving the Impreza WRX sedan BTW.

Thing is, I drive an Impreza everyday, but I don't ever get the heavy understeering that GT3 simulates.

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Sim's r definatly not for beginners, they r extremly hard to control especially with TCS all the way off, u cant jsut step on teh gas and go in teh first few gears, u need to ease it so it actually gains traction to speed up. I use em on my AE's and pretty much every other car other than the Chaser, with sports on. I've never been really good @ 4WD drifting so i really wouldnt kno anything in that subject
 
Meatwad
Well sims are for the beginners.
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well... i guess i'm a beginner then... personally i haven't tried any of the other tires... so i wouldn't know... but i like the sims... sure they aren't "realistic" but hey... they make for some pretty cool replays...
 
lol i think this is calling all the exhibition pros beginners lol oh btw i can drift with sims with a controller
 
bustwave.
Uhm no they're not. High Grip tires and lots of HP are for begniners. Sims require skill and control.
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Hmmm... I stop drifting with simulation tire and it's very fast and no understeer with normal tires (and other tires too). Simualtion tire are for those who cant use real technique because simulation tires automaticly slide your cars. Normal tires require real drift technique ( Side (E-brake), Shift Lock, Power Over, Braking, Faint, Lift-Off (Accel Off).
 
I use sports before, with both TCS and ASM turn off, and back then I thought I was very good at drifting... duh! :P
then I found out this site a year back and watched some of the amazing drift videos here(gran dorifto 1,2) and started to wonder... how the heck do they drift like that!!??
the answer is..... SIMS.... thats my story, I'll shut up for now, peace :D
 
Ryosuke_Gumna
Hmmm... I stop drifting with simulation tire and it's very fast and no understeer with normal tires (and other tires too). Simualtion tire are for those who cant use real technique because simulation tires automaticly slide your cars. Normal tires require real drift technique ( Side (E-brake), Shift Lock, Power Over, Braking, Faint, Lift-Off (Accel Off).
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Your wrong, Sim tires still require that you use real techinques.. Theres not a single tire on the planet that doesnt.By the way, You can't shift lock in gt3..You can use all the techiqnues for every single tire with sims too, Btw this has already been discussed just search guys...Don't start arguing about this now, can we have a mod close this?Theres many threads about this.
 
battle_stage
Riiight, for the beginners...


It's obvious all you super-pro awesome drifters out there completely missed Ployphony's sole intention for placing simulation tires in the game. I wonder what it could be???
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Indeed. I figured that out when i put sims on a car just to see what it was like. Needless to say, it was a drift car the next race.
 
I started off using normals, and sports.... Then I decided to give stock cars a try on sims. Needless to say, my skill improved dramaticaly after practicing with only stock cars on sims. It forces you to refine your throttle and countersteer technique, to pull off a smooth controlled drift..... Sims are only for low power cars, so I don't understand why people make such a big deal out of this. Just equip the correct tire for the HP/Weight/Situation. Personally I preffer sim tires, because of the realism, yes, that's right, I said realism. When you equip sim tires on the car, it doesn't just change the tire grip, it changes the physics a bit, as well..... The sim tire physics are just more realistic, and if you keep the HP at a reasonable level, you don't slide around like your on ice (like I keep hearing everyone whine about)..... You only slide around like that if you have too much HP for the tires and/or the car is setup poorly.....

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Thank You. It's a preference. So "Swift" if you dont like sims. TOO BAD. If you dont like them. Leave it alone. Drift your tires and us sim drifters will drift sims. All up to preference. Leave it at that.
 
bustwave.
Thank You. It's a preference. So "Swift" if you dont like sims. TOO BAD. If you dont like them. Leave it alone. Drift your tires and us sim drifters will drift sims. All up to preference. Leave it at that.
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Are you ragging on my username when yours is bustwave?:rolleyes:

Anyway, you missed my point. I was saying, if you bothered to read my original post, that it doesn't matter what the tires are as long as the drifting is good.

So anyway, let's all drift and have fun.
 
Swift
Are you ragging on my username when yours is bustwave?:rolleyes:

Anyway, you missed my point. I was saying, if you bothered to read my original post, that it doesn't matter what the tires are as long as the drifting is good.

So anyway, let's all drift and have fun.
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no , lets all beat up this person, j/k.

Yes, there is a lot of skill involved, especially with the FR drifting. I've tried drifting on sims. It's borderline impossible, at least with a controller.
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about that, it just takes practice
 
Personal preferance,
I've always used sims for drifting, the car doesn't behave properly with any others, it doesn't spin the tyres when you floor it like they should.
Some of my friends and my brother thinks that the sim tyres are crap cause you always spin out, to which i reply, well stop flooring it all the time, if we went out drifting you don't floor it all through the corner do you?

But each to their own.
 
RyosukeFCDS
Personal preferance,
I've always used sims for drifting, the car doesn't behave properly with any others, it doesn't spin the tyres when you floor it like they should.
Some of my friends and my brother thinks that the sim tyres are crap cause you always spin out, to which i reply, well stop flooring it all the time, if we went out drifting you don't floor it all through the corner do you?

But each to their own.
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Exactly...... If you don't have rediculous power, and use propper throttle control, a car on sims acts very much like a real car......
 
"Yes, there is a lot of skill involved, especially with the FR drifting. I've tried drifting on sims. It's borderline impossible, at least with a controller. "

all i use it the analog controller, i havent used anything else, it jsut takes time to learn how it flows, im pretty sure pedals r easier for controlling acc and braking, but ive learned how to cope with it usin a analog
 
ForcedInduction
hmm well whoever started this thread tried diss sim tires and they got powned; officially powned by the veterans of the forum
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Uh...did you read my original post? I didn't dis sim tires or suing them to drift. I was dissing others that thought unless you're on sims you're not "really" drifting.

But anyway, all I really have to say is, Who cares what tires a driver uses? As long as the technique is sound!

Forced induction...did you get that?
 
ROFL doesn't sound like it to me from evryone's responses. And by saying that you are in a way implying what i have to say.

Edit: By the way if u read closely noone really elaborated on your idea. All you're saying is that noone really cares about sim tires but if you look at the replies,you'll see everyone does. And that second post that said "sims are for beginners" just made a whole new topic. ROFL
 
Uh actually a few did. But anyway, I can't choose how people respond to a topic. So that's just how it goes.

As far as the sims are for beginners thing, I didn't start that so oh well.
 

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