Drift hopefully not too much?

im a little concerned that the drift element of this game will become more than just a side show for the main game. Ive never considered drifting proper motorsport at all, and to see no mention of seasons, qualifying and a lot of talk about drifting is a bit disappointing to be totally honest.

Lets get some proper motorsport action going with one make championships, mixed gt class racing and the like... do we need NFS garbage in this title?? i think not...

 

About which drift elements are you talking ?
There is only one track designed for drifting ?

 

Street Cars drift. People enjoy drifting, this is a racing sim. How one chooses to drive a car is upto them. I say the more the merrier and this game should cater for all interests.

 

To be honest, I don't know how to drift. I can slide a bit here and there, but nothing serious. Mastering the drift technique could be very useful in a serious race. Say you lose control in a corner, to be able to correct it successfully would be a great thing, in my opinion. If I'm going sideways too much, I can't put it back on the road in the right direction. I've been practicing sliding just to help my skills with better car control. I spun out a lot of times not being able to control the slide.

 

the words racing sim say it all i dont really consider drifting racing?!

 

@MsportDAN I agree with you, drifting makes you lose a lot of time, but for others it's for the show. Again, I don't plan on drifting in a race, but the skills could come in handy.

 

How you wan't to ban drifting ?
If physics are good you are always able to drift, even on some racing tracks you need to slide (a slide is a drift, too) a little bit.

If you don't like drifting it is your point, but we are a wide and open community and as Dean said, bigger community more fun for everyone.

 

@Danny Giusa Also, in iRacing (my main sim for now) a lot of the faster guys use a loose setup, which means their back end slides just a little bit (more oversteer) so the car turns faster in the right direction. I'm not able to perform that, yet. So I'm loosing a lot of time driving safe, so I don't cause an incident.

 

im not saying ban it, i just dont want this to become the focus of this sim.. we need a pure racing sim with concentrattion on full sim racing, an iracing beater not a shift 2 beater.

Ive just been disapointed with games like this in the past, when they try to please hardcore and arcade racers....and they do neither spot on....

 

I understand your concerns, but if AC has good physics, than it allows to do everything you can IRL. So if someone wants to drift, he will have drift track, for us, racers, will remain plenty of other beautiful tracks and "non-drift" cars.
Community can split a bit, but I wouldn't be afraid, that race part will become less popular than drift part. Don't worry, there are plenty of racers out there
And still, you cannot say it is in focus of the sim just after receiving one drift track while we have many magnificent tracks planned. And then there is also mod community

 

@MsportDAN I don't think everybody will start drifting in races or change the direction of where Assetto Corsa is going. Some like drifting, some don't (like you for example and many other). Again, don't think drifting is good for actual serious racing, but it's a good skill to have.

 

you are entitled to your opinion, but why try and force that on everyone, simply because you don't understand that aspect of motor racing?

I am NOT a drifter, in fact I really don't care for it, or plan on racing that part of the game very much. (if at all)

But you won't see me making negative comments or asking to have that removed simply because I wont be using it.

This is pretty much like getting upset with someone else for eating french fries because YOU are on a diet

 

I don't think you need to worry about this.

 

@Danny Giusa You should've put a very large arrow pointing to that small text.

 

Probably, something like a Las Vegas Bill Board, with many bling bling

 

just would rather them concentate on getting pitstops in or things like that, rather a purely wasted mode..

 

People can drift in races if they like, they gonna be sloooow *** times compared to running a clean lap. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. There is a drift mode in the game so it's sort of a side show not the main event. I have no isse with it but understand the concern

 

Pitstops?
It's their prerogative, I suppose. I think the absence of multiplayer, even at this early stage, speaks a lot more about the true direction of Assetto Corsa than the inclusion of a "Drift Mode".
Does look quite pretty, though, and the way those doors open and close- very crucial to "Your Racing Simulator".

 

I imagine the drift feature isn't too big to implement, so it most likely doesn't affect the development of the 'racing' features. Irrespective, I think it's a nice to have, drifting is big in LFS lobbies (or at least the demo), could help bring more people to Assetto Corsa.