Drifting in San Andreas

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Emohawk
I think my definition of 'drifting' is a bit looser then yours. Handbraking around Liberty in a Blista, power oversteer in anything RWD (VC Infurnus' are great for that), or just driving anything with the tires shot out. I'd call all of that drifting.
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Drifting a Tanker with a connected trailer?
 
Emohawk
Violently back on topic!

I think my definition of 'drifting' is a bit looser then yours. Handbraking around Liberty in a Blista, power oversteer in anything RWD (VC Infurnus' are great for that), or just driving anything with the tires shot out. I'd call all of that drifting.
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Technically drifting is oversteer. Which means that while turning, your ass end has lost traction and is making a wider radius turn than the front end. The rear wants to go strait, but the front wants to go around the turn. Drifting is also:
#1. Brake before corner
#2. slightly lose tracion
#3. accelerate during turn in RWD car (forces rear wheels to spin and thus push rear end forward, not following front stearing wheels)
In GTA there is no FWD/RWD/AWD. The handling dynamics of the cars are far too inconsisten to come to a conclusion for each. I think they're pretty much 4WD. I've noticed this because #1. I can drive forward with the front wheels while engaging e-brake/parking brake. and #2. I can also do burnouts with the rear wheels. this proves that both wheels are drive wheels, and that there is no FWD or RWD cars in LC, VC, or SA. The TVR-like Stinger i was referring to, was in LC. So, as far as "drifting" concerns me in any of the GTA games, GTA 1 is pretty much the only one. Unless you're taking a very sharp corner while accelerating, all you're doing is powersliding.
 
PublicSecrecy
Technically drifting is oversteer. Which means that while turning, your ass end has lost traction and is making a wider radius turn than the front end. The rear wants to go strait, but the front wants to go around the turn. Drifting is also:
#1. Brake before corner
#2. slightly lose tracion
#3. accelerate during turn in RWD car (forces rear wheels to spin and thus push rear end forward, not following front stearing wheels)
In GTA there is no FWD/RWD/AWD. The handling dynamics of the cars are far too inconsisten to come to a conclusion for each. I think they're pretty much 4WD. I've noticed this because #1. I can drive forward with the front wheels while engaging e-brake/parking brake. and #2. I can also do burnouts with the rear wheels. this proves that both wheels are drive wheels, and that there is no FWD or RWD cars in LC, VC, or SA. The TVR-like Stinger i was referring to, was in LC. So, as far as "drifting" concerns me in any of the GTA games, GTA 1 is pretty much the only one. Unless you're taking a very sharp corner while accelerating, all you're doing is powersliding.
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I may have missunderstood you but it sounded like you were saying all cars in GTA behave like AWD. I seriously dissagree, you can only move forward or backward with the e-brake engaged in cewrtain cars (namely FWD and AWD), but there are alot of cars where the engine just revs (meaning it's RWD). Also only some cars produce wheelspin when using brake and the accelerator (AWD and RWD). Also the handling.cfg file shows that the cars are either FWD/AWD/RWD.
 
I used a cheat disk about 5 mins ago that I got with a magazine and used the cheat low gravity and it is easy to drift, it is slow but that makes it easier and there is another cheat called very low gravity, thats mad for driftin'. and the car that looks like a skyline, I think its called elegy is it moddifyable coz I cant find anywhere that will accept it, where can I?
 
You can only modify the higher end imports at the Wheel Arch Angels. These include the Elegy (You were correct about the Skyline look), Flash, Jester, Stratum, Sultan, and the Uranus. You can unlock this mod shop after completing the "Zeroing In" mission in the Steal Cars Strand that is at your garage in San Fierro.
 
I would be able to unlock dem but I cant get passed zeros missions. my said that he did jizzys missions first and then woozies and he didnt have to do zeros. is that true coz my nextdoor neighbour hasnt completed those missions and I would load his game to my memorycard and do them the other way. but is it true.
 
I think you need to complete Zer0's missions to continue...

Which one are you stuck on?
 
Ah. I struggled with that for weeks. I ended up resorting to cheats to beat it, but it worked first time.
 
Zero's missions aren't compulsory at all. You don't need them to complete 100%, nor do you need them to continue on to any missions. All completing them does is unlock Zero's RC Store asset, meaning that it generates money like the other assets, and it also unlocks a repeatable mission found at the back of the store.
 
To unlock Wheel Arch Angles you don't have to do Zeros Missions, I believe the mission "Zeroing In" is not one of Zeros missions, just a normal mission that involoves Zero. I'm not sure which mission unlocks it though.

Blake
 

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