Skyline nonsense

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I have been reading the skyline thread with interest but it strikes me that they are a load of rubbish. When you see them being reveiwed in the media, reviewers go on about how easy they are to slide and drift etc. All mine seem to do is understeer so badly i give up and try a proper 4WD. Am i missing something? If the car in the game is an accurate rendition of the real car....why do people rave about them so much. Maybe someone can enlighten me with some definitive settings for a specific model so i can see for myself.

p.s. do realise the moderator will shoot me down in flames for posting this but am frustrated with the skyline...so there!! :yuck:
 
Turn off TCS and ASM and put on some proper tires. Use a VCD and tune your LSD as well. Then you'll be sliding all over the place. I would post my settings but I'm not at my PS2.
 
I have the exact problem, althow i do kind of suck at making good LSD drift settins for 4wds, but other than that i find it very easy to drift a stock r34 with n3s, just give it a lot of throtel and itll break loos and keep its line.
 
Use the standard suspension, lsd and vcd, and the R34 drifts almost like an FR car.. and the rear end of R34s can be horribly nervous on the Nürburgring. Yes, being a big heavy car it has a bit of understeer, but when you get some experience on slippery tires you won't notice it that much... you'll start to notice the nervous rear end and lift oversteer :scared:

In fact, try driving around on Ns for a while and try some drifting.. After doing that for a while all my gripes about understeering in this game are gone. Now I'm worried about oversteer when I'm grip driving :dunce:

Disclaimer: I haven't tested them all, I have a couple of R34s and the one I drive the most is the V-SpecII Nür from the Nissan garage.
 
The early ones may understeer more, but the later Skylines drive almost exactly like FR cars with more grip.

It's a factor of tires and expectations. When you're on S-Tires, there is just too much grip at the back, and the cars won't rotate, but on N-Tires, the behavior of the Skyline is much better.
 
Mr ruf
p.s. do realise the moderator will shoot me down in flames for posting this but am frustrated with the skyline...so there!! :yuck:
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Why? You've posted in the settings forum looking for Skyline settings. Nothing wrong there.

As you seem to looking for drift settings, you could try the drift settings depot and see if there's anything suitable there.
 
Please do not badmouth a car if you haven't tried it out properly, which you don't seem to have done here. Early Skylines (being FR) are perfect drift cars, the R32 GT-R in particular, and almost any Skyline can drift when set up properly.

Also, the Skyline R33s and 34s make great drag cars and are very versatile, ranging from 270 to 800bhp. I know I'm very biased in the Skyline's favour but it has a greater tuning potential than any other car, so... What's wrong with it?

DE
 
I think that Skylines are one of the best cars with the Blitz D1GP skyline in the top 5 drifters at the recent D1GP, and there are also around 4 different Skyline runniny 8 Second passes on a 1/4mile drag strip in NZ, some even on street tires :scared:
 
Do not install a LSD or VCD.

Definetly not a VCD...

LSD only if you can tune them.

with stock VCD the skyline is like an FR with more grip, very sweet to drive indeed 👍
 
niky
The early ones may understeer more, but the later Skylines drive almost exactly like FR cars with more grip.

It's a factor of tires and expectations. When you're on S-Tires, there is just too much grip at the back, and the cars won't rotate, but on N-Tires, the behavior of the Skyline is much better.
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Quite agree, an R33 GT-R on N2 tyres is a great drive, very predicatable, with slight understeer that turns to easy to manage understeer.

Regards

Scaff
 
Oddly enough my Mine's Skyline understeers quite heavily at low speeds while normal R34 Skylines are easy to steer on the throttle. Maybe it's because I have too grippy tires?
 

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