Level 50 Drifters? Drifing Tutorial?

Is any of the pro-drifters in the mood to give a small drifting tutorial? Would be interesting to see all steering and pedal inputs during these extreme drifts. And maybe you have some tips what helped you to improve your drifting? For instance, would you recommend to practice more on the inner circle of the drift circuit (slower drifts) or rather go for some high speed drifts immediately? Currently I'm struggling a bit, and I'm still far away from level 50 in drift mode. Guess my drift angles are just not yet extreme enough, but if I try to drift more wildly, I mostly end up spinning. Anyone actually reached level 50? Would love to see that on youtube.

 

I've not been able to reach level 50 yet (my best is 30), but I did a writeup recently in another thread. Since then, the new update has come out, and I cannot recommend the E30 Drift enough. Best car for drifting in the entire sim.

I might consider making a drift tut for YouTube? Dunno, perhaps sometime. I'd like to get a TH8 RS first so I can demo handbrake techniques with the then-vacated DFP bump shifter.

 

If you put the front of the car up against the pit wall before you start and do a burnout until the tyres are warm enough to hit the limiter in second gear (E92). You can do this without setting the timer off if you are careful. Also hand brake makes everything easier, it's like a safety net for when you don't want to do extreme drifting. Instead of having to flick the car fast to do a transition, you can just transition lightly and pull the hand brake just as the weight shifts to the other side, it makes it much easier for beginners, you can just drag the *** around the place instead of committing to extreme feint or clutch kicking entries.

I personally like to use the outside track and stay in 3rd gear all the time, but I take a route I don't see anyone else use in videos yet. I go clockwise and cut across at the straight bit that joins near the first corner by the wall. That way you can keep the most speed and angle for the longest time possible on this track.

Sorry I don't have a video, I'm not very good at the interwebs.

 

I got to level 25 yesterday with the new S54 E30. But I started getting tired, that's why

 

That thing is such a beast, I'm so pleased with it. I found the E92, even in drift spec, tended to bog down a lot. None of that at all with the new E30. I got to level 30 earlier today and my shoulders still ache

 

Ahaha I know. The E92 is bogged down in third. Second gear drifts are do-able, third gear drifts are hard to achieve unless you have really long wide turns, that's about it. The E30 with the new S54, just like you said. Absolute beast. Too bad AC didn't just come out with an E46 M3 instead

 

I love the drift E30 too, first proper drift car in AC, the way you can just throw it up to 3rd gear in the middle of a slow corner and it keeps going. I'll probably never use that E92 again, it's such a pain how it always bogs down. Maybe they should change the engine in the E92 drift to the M5 engine with twin turbos

 

e92m3 bogs because it's heavy as ****, e46m3 weights 1549kg, it will be slower and less satisfaction to drive than 1150kg e30m3

I hope later moders will make stock e30 pre faclift model with small bumpers and bmw e39m5 s62b50 v8 engine or better LS7 7.0l v8 and then we can burn rubber in every gear
It will happen it's just a meter of time...

 

I much prefer standard body style than M3 too, though I prefer facelift without the chrome bits, like 318is. There was a guy here with the E30 M3 engine in his and it could melt tyres in 3rd gear no problems what so ever.

 

If you want I can try uploading my replay of getting to level 100, it might be more useful than watching a video on youtube. It's nearly 200mb.
Does anyone know if it's possible to do this?
It's not what I would call extreme drifting, I was being careful and using the hand brake a lot, but I guess it's all relative.

 

I got to level 50 (look at my profile on Steam to see the achievement). I started off by comboing in the oval on the drift track. Then I just took it around the track by linking up Combos. I found that before level 20 every 10k points got me 10 levels.

 

An replay would obviously be great, though a youtube video would probably do as well (and you would be the first drift king on youtube ). I can pretty much keep almost non-stop drifting now (in the inner circle). However, I simply do not get enough points for that. I don't really understand the scoring system and since I'm playing with a Rift, I cannot see the scoring GUI elements . Maybe it's because I'm too slow, or maybe it's the drift angle. I saw some other tips in this thread and tried to do some manji drifting: With that I even can't go beyond level 2 (okay, so far I try not to use the handbrake, since it would feel a bit unrealistic binding it to a wheel button).

 

I think you need to see the GUI, it tells you how much time you have and how far to the next level.
When the timer is still going it doesn't matter if you spin or go off course, you will lose what ever points you had for that drift, but you can keep going.
If you run out of time you must keep drifting until you get to the next level, or else your go is over.
You have to stop drifting every now and then to bank your points, otherwise you will lose all your score if you spin or go off course.
The higher the combo and score you get the more time you get rewarded when you bank your points.

The driftking achievement doesn't show up in the replay, so it would just be another video. Also if you can watch my replay you can see any view you want and turn on pedals app to see what I'm doing there.
I use an old ps2 joypad as my handrake and it works with xpadder. You can probably use any controller you want as the handbrake if you use something like xpadder. You'll just have to find something you can use comfortably with your setup. It's very hard to do with out the handbrake as it can really help you out when you make mistakes.

Edit: I can't upload my replay on here unfortunately, sorry.

 

Here I made a video to show you, hope it helps.

https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/m3-e30-drift.3899/

 

I just drifted around aimlessly and had fun with it until I got bored, (level 51). So long as you keep the car sliding and avoid mistakes it doesn't matter if you do big drifts, small ones, fast ones or slow, just keep the car sideways. You probably have to be a little more efficient to hit 100 though due to fuel, but I'd had enough by the time I hit 40 let alone 100. It seems that from 40 onwards (ish) you need to avoid mistakes as each level takes longer to achieve than the amount of time granted from the level.

 

I barely got level 10 at drifting. With real car i have drifted all my life in different conditions. My biggest problem now is my MoMo Racing FF Wheel. Just 240 degrees turning and hard to maintain steady slide cos steering is so fast ratio... I guess that if i had G27, i got much better results. Dear Sa(n)tan Clauss, bring me new wheel!

 

I have to agree with Juutas, very difficult maintaining a proper drift with the Momo. Have to hunt for Sales on a G27. Never going to own a CSR unfortunately, that thing is way too expensive for my level of involvement not to mention for my pocket.

 

You get more points for faster drifts with big angle, that's why I recommended this route as you can do the highest speed and angle for the longest time. It doesn't mean you can't do it any other way, especially now that you can do it with infinite fuel. If you try to get combos between 50 and 100 it will increase your time much more than doing smaller combos, it helps when you get to the higher levels. You can get about 10 minutes on the timer for a big combos near the start, which helps later on.

 

I just added an on board video for you here https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/m3-drift-king-achievement.3899/ hope it helps.

 

Does anyone use T500RS? I need some tips on how to setup the FFB, every slide ends up in uncontrollable tankslapper and its frustrating to even try...