E-brake

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It's not noobish if you use it once in a while. Or if your just starting.

It is however once you start relying on it EVERY turn. Don't be afraid to use it when you get in a sticky situation. ;)
 
There's nothing wrong with using e-brake. It helps you coordinate your angle if you need it. However, I find the e-brake less effective in GT4. I would suggest you to perform a feint drift then use the e-brake. Good luck.
 
its not noobish to use it all the pro drifters use it but it can also break a drift than make one ;)

i like coming into a corner and dabing the handbrake (e-brake) and letting the car revlimit then letting it off and intsant loss of traction. :)
 
Red Raevyn
...people not usin the e-brake cause it's cheap, but if you watch the pros, they use the ebrake too. You can see it in car, you can see it out of car when they distinctly lock the rear wheels. I think it's some seriously skewed egotism about being too cool for the e-brake.
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apexd1fd3s
you're right, e-brake is commonly used by the pros during competition, though their e-brakes are much more advanced- especially made for pro drifting. (HKS Genki S15 has an e-brake system which is completely adjustable during perforamance.. too bad we can't use it in GT4 ;) )
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From an old discussion, just bringing it here :)
 
It's ok to use it to fix up your angle sometimes... but don't go around using it to initiate and hold drifts from start to end... that's just noobish.
 
slo-car
It's ok to use it to fix up your angle sometimes... but don't go around using it to initiate and hold drifts from start to end... that's just noobish.
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haha I have never heard/seen anyone do that. That sounds totally whack ;)
 
There was a hot discussion about FF Drift and using the e-brake on the FF Drift thread. No one's bashing on FF Drift, FF Drift is awwwesome. Requires the same if not more tuning skills and driving skills. I have much respect for people who knows how to drift FF and does it well.. but as for RMR's GTO.. no comment on that .. ehem..
 
I'm not bashing FWD drifting. That was the first format I "drifted" in when I heard about drifting. It's just now that I look back, a car sliding past with the rear wheels locked look funny to me.
 
i use it for cars with heavy understeer..........and to deepin the angle of my drifts


But yeha its way less effective than it was in GT3........but its still vey help ful.........i use it alot cause im still getting use to the physics of GT4 and im not a great GT4 drifter
 
Hmmm...this one is borderline. Instead of opinions, someone give a good concrete reason why using the ebrake, except for FF, isn't the best thing in the world. Thanks.
 
i found using the handbrake in the corner to be useless (e.g., if it was a long corner and u needed to lose more traction), because on this game u istantly lose speed ,then its too hard to gain revs, then u spin, but coming into a corner i find it only in use for a tight hairpin when a lot of braking is needed coming into the corner, a handbrake can be used to allow your car to enter sideways, but then again, i think you need to be skillful enough to do that, so i find it pretty much usless on this game
 
The reason your losing speed is because your holding the e-brake for too long. It may to you, seem quick but if your losing speed, you know your holding it too long.
 
Not to take anything away from ff racers but It's not possible to drift an ff car though it is possible to ass drag (which in my opinion is harder than drifting a fr car). But my opinion on ff drifting is kind of like that of cheerleading not being a sport, just because I dont believe it falls under a certain category doesn't mean im dissing it.

Why is excessive e-brake use bad? Mixing tires is widely held as removing an element of balance from your car. I believe that e-braking is a greater degree of this. One moment your car has full grip the next the rear has none.

The fact that it is like a lightswitch, either on or off, just makes it worse. There is no variation.

I accept that it is necesary to use it to get a 4wd or a ff car sideways and that there are corners that require alot of angle in a short time and in those cases e-brake is more than acceptable. My opinion of e-braking in most fr cars is not too high personally, it kind of says "hey I don't know how to deal with the momentum and weight transfer". Any one who is bound by the ebrake could ween themselves out of it by using progressivly weaker rear break balance.

Is that a good enough explanation Swift? I'm sure someone else can explain this better.

I know that many real life drifters use the e-brake, my opinion is limited to GT.
 
MdnIte
The reason your losing speed is because your holding the e-brake for too long. It may to you, seem quick but if your losing speed, you know your holding it too long.
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Yep id say that'll be the issue, but i still dont find it effective, im sure some people do though (my opinion)
 
Swift
Hmmm...this one is borderline. Instead of opinions, someone give a good concrete reason why using the ebrake, except for FF, isn't the best thing in the world. Thanks.
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E-brake are mostly used to initiate a drift, or to adjust angles(as mentioned many times in previous replies), furthermore, it can be used to sort-of "extend" the slide and maybe perform some emergency recoveries.

You may not need it in a game like GT4, but in real life, it can be a very useful tool, the E-brake is there, it's something that you can use to assist in your driving, of course, if you're really good then you might not need it.

One more thing is that, E-brake is frequently used during "dog-fights" or "tsuiso"(drift battles/chases), the following car needs to sometimes mirror the move of the leading car, at critical moments, he'll need the E-brake to adjust angles, speed and so on, sometimes steering work + throttle/brake just ain't good enough to make "quick" adjustments, this is when E-brake comes useful.
 
The only use the e-brake had for me in GT3 was to correct my line.

Say, if I cut too soon and was drifting towards the inside wall, simply countering harder and pulling the e-brake would move your car towards the outside, and when you released and got back on the throttle, the car would start moving towards the inside again.

Follow through and not spin out as usual.


Now, GT4 is a different story.

Since I don't have an emergency brake at my side, I would be forced to resort to pushing the circle button on the wheel, which could be in any number of locations, making it virtually impossible to use 100% effectively.

The only logical solution I could produce was, since the drift is screwed anyways, just let the car hit the wall and spin out and simply use that wasted time as incentive to not screw up like that again.

Well, if I know the drift is ruined from the start, I'll normally brake and correct the car and just move on to the next corner.

In my humble opinion, e-braking is ugly and is merely a tool to compensate for poor entry.. and such...


Forgive the grumpy-wumpy attitude (if there is any).
I am sick, and feverish, and my body hurts, and there's some clear liquid literally dripping from my nasal passage, and it's 3:36am, and I'm tired, and it's my bedtime.

Aloha nui loa.
:cheers:
 

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