Seasonal Drift Event

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Post any tips or experiences regarding the Season Drift Event

I personally suck at drift trials, but I'll give it a go :P

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Tsukuba Notes:
-The extra turns in Section 3 (after the Dunlop hoop) DOES NOT give points, so don't drift into it!
 
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Come on now Goracle I have drifted with you before, I know you can put up some good numbers. BTW the trick is to turn on the driving line, the closer your front end is to that line the more points you get for the drift. It's lame I know cause the racing and drifting lines are different but what are you going to do, eh?
 
Well I'm currently 787th on Tsukuba with the Volvo. I found a trick is to stick as close to the inside barrier as possible, but then again because I'm fighting with a heavy long wheelbase car the whole way my method of attack is likely going to be very different.
 
What Enzo_Guy said, the points count faster the closer you are to the inside.

Also go slow, the longer you stay in corners the more time for points to tally up.

Pretty silly way to do drift points, they basically reward you for being slow and taking corners as boring and safe as possible. If you take a corner with a lot of angle the points count slower or not at all. If you do an awesome drift just skirting the outside of the corner you get next to nothing for being so precise and controlled. If you take a corner fast with total control you get very little because you clear the corner so fast.

I'm 106 now at eiger was 85 at one point but didn't stay there for long, gotta go to bed, probably can't sleep thinking about where I'll be when I wake up lol why do we need sleep anyway :indiff:

This is why I really want time trial/drift trial leaderboards, nothing can get me more into driving than having someone to try and beat.

EDIT: Forgot to add, that was in my British racing green Ginetta G4' 64. She's such an awesome little car, best car I've driven yet. Drifts like a dream, smokes for whole tracks at a time, she's a blast to drive.
 
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Come on now Goracle I have drifted with you before, I know you can put up some good numbers. BTW the trick is to turn on the driving line, the closer your front end is to that line the more points you get for the drift. It's lame I know cause the racing and drifting lines are different but what are you going to do, eh?
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True, true. I always like to manji and drift in trials how I drift in general.

Regarding the points... I got lucky those times :P

Enzo_Guy
Well I'm currently 787th on Tsukuba with the Volvo.
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I remember your pink Volvo!
 
Currently 136th world rank and 2nd UK for the tsukuba one, going to go have a few more goes now as only had ten or so attempts earlier.
 
I got rank 137 with a s2k and about 18k points on eiger, I stayed in the inside as much as possible and used the dfgt. Really had fun doing it and still improving :D.
 
HUG the corners as tight as you can, and comfort hards improve score as well.
Currently top australian at 238th. in my s13.
 
I never bothered to drift for score before, I have to change how I drift to get a good score. I pulled off this amazing entry on the first corner, nearly backwards and crowd were going booo:confused: my score was only 900 at the end of the corner:lol:
I got up to 77th but i'm probably way down by now. I'll give it another try tomorrow.
 
I posted a 6000+ point run this morning and was like #2500 something... not good at all, but it was my best run on Tsukuba to date and I was happy considering I've only been drifting for like a 2 weeks.
 
I got to #44 on Tsukuba and #26 on Eiger earlier today, although I've probably been bumped out of the top 100 by now. The scoring is still as messed up as it was in GT5P, where you get rewarded for going painfully slow and following the racing line to the letter. There's really no point in it for me, I'm going to stick to drifting with real people. 👎
 
Don't know if this was mentioned but just as in Prologue you can download the replays of the top 10 scores. Maybe it'll give you a better perspective on what a "top 10 score" run looks like.

seems like STEPMANIA from GT5P is getting #1 again.
 
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And angle! It's retarded if it only gives the best points for staying at 45 degrees and in the corner for as long as possible.

Should be allowed to score points for upto 120degrees of rotation to be honest to allow for backwards entries and the higher the speed the more points just like real drifting.

To be honest, considering it's entirely on driver skill and control, flare as well as the essentials such as speed, angle and position (real drifting scores more if you rub certain clipping points and edges of tracks rather than just the racing line) online drifting is probably best left to fun and tandem and train drifting rather than trying to ge up the leader boards for what's not really proper drifting.



Suppose little tournaments of online racing with a few people judging from spectating each driver has a run over a sector would be cool as it would be as near to real life as you can get.
Start off with 30-50 drivers, then down to 16 and twin-battles for the end.

Time consuming but so is an online endurance race.


Drivers could line up for example on the grid of tsukaba and would he judged on the first hairpin to the second hairpin while judges or any other drivers are spectating.

Then the next driver on the grid would be given a signal to go once the previous driver is finished the sector, judged and cameras set on the next driver through voice over on headsets or messages etc.
Runs keep going then until only 16 are left and the. It goes down to twin-battles and knockout to find the winner.

Obviously the judging is open to abit of error or variation but at least we wouldn't be getting penalised for drifting properly at speed, silly angles and backwards entries.

I reckon it would be good fun and also reasonably good practice for those in the off season from real drifting over the winter months that have G27s etc.

I'd find it pretty good fun anyway until I get my own drift car built for next year.
 
Angle is something they need to account for, rather than line. Drifting is not racing so they need to do away with "More points the closer to the racing line you are" phenomenon. I was doing complete full lock sideways and was getting NO points whatsoever.
 
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currently 4th in US according to counting flags haha

73rd world

scores are gonna jump in a month, damn. and people sure love the buick.
 
I had a go last night on tsukuber i hadn't tried it before the update and got 14000 points. That put me at just over 1000th in the world. I used the 205 turbo which isn't bad once its set up right. Im hoping i can get a lot better if i keep at it. What do you guys think? Is that a good score considering it was my first go at drifting?
 
teh luckinator
scores are gonna jump in a month, damn. and people sure love the buick.
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Noticed that too, '62 Buick Special.

last night I was 130 world, now I'm 200:crazy:. Scored something like 20,060 with a Celica XX 2000GT.....I'm almost tempted to try that damn '62 buick.
 
Borodori
Noticed that too, '62 Buick Special.

last night I was 130 world, now I'm 200:crazy:. Scored something like 20,060 with a Celica XX 2000GT.....I'm almost tempted to try that damn '62 buick.
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Kept wrestling my C63 for a few hours today achieving a miserable 18k, tried a stock Buick and got a bit under 20k on my second try. :crazy:
 
Well, I was 87th on Tsukuba last night, but I guess I'll be down nearer 150 now...

It does take skill no doubt, but I wouldn't say it was proper drifting. I've got my Buick set up with maximum rear camber, some toe out, full lock on the LSD in the hopes to go as slowly as possible around the track. The scoring doesn't seem to always reward you for getting a great angle and if you don't drift on the right line you don't get scored for it at all.

But it is just so darned addictive!
 
I think you guys underestimate the importance of a good line in a drift. They don't ignore it in real life either. Your line through the corner demonstrates your control over the vehicle. It's also important on many tracks for linking corners properly, if you don't take the right line you won't have enough speed.

I do agree that the point scoring is pretty dumb, but the racing line thing is dead on. Drift lines and racing lines are almost identical.
 
i watched the replay of the #1 guy and i noticed that he adjusted the tranny so he could drift it in 6th gear just about the whole time..........I notice if u are in a higher gear you get more points, and if u get super crazy angle you dont get any points.
 
pergatory
I think you guys underestimate the importance of a good line in a drift. They don't ignore it in real life either. Your line through the corner demonstrates your control over the vehicle. It's also important on many tracks for linking corners properly, if you don't take the right line you won't have enough speed.

I do agree that the point scoring is pretty dumb, but the racing line thing is dead on. Drift lines and racing lines are almost identical.
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I gotta say whats up man, I'm in Oly too. You involved in the local car scene at all?
 
Sometimes when I manji and feint into a section, my drifting doesn't get counted until I'm 15% inside the section
 

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