You shouldn't loose your drift points!

You shouldn't loose your points when you leave the road. I understand you should loose your combo, but not the points you've made. If you drift for 10 min and then touch the grass, you have 0 points! That's not right, you should get the points and have the combo reset. Otherwise it's just so frustrating it's unplayable.

 

Not everything has to be as easy as possible all the time. If you remove the penalty you might as well hand out the Steam achievements (I assume that's what you're going for) for free. Enjoy the challenge, learn from your mistakes and don't touch the grass next time. It's that easy.

 

Well it was a suggestion for the devs to make the events better by removing frustration. I enjoy the challenge, I just think the events are better if you don't lose the points. You still lose the combo though, it's not handing out achievements. Imagine you drift for 15 min for a continuous combo and get 25K points, then you touch the grass and the session ends with 0 points and no achievements. That's not good from a design point of view. I should get the points I ALREADY achieved, but reset my combo. Frustration does not equal challenge.

 

tbh,i find drift events too easy!i dont agree with u! that is like hot lap without penalty!

 

Ok, let me ask you: you drift like a god for 1 hour, make all kinds of amazing moves, clouds of smoke, get to 200x combo, then at the end you touch the grass and... poof! all gone, 0 points. Do you honestly think that's good design? I don't... but in any case, it was just a suggestion for the devs, they can read and decide if they change it or not.

 

but that is the magic! every time u try and fail u will become better! your time will come! its posible too get gold in all of them!

 

Well, let's agree to disagree and let the devs read it if they want (or not).

 

I'm really bad at drifting but I agree with Darko vlado: That's the magic. It's like gambling - if you risk too much you might lose it all. Sorry for that hackneyed phrase but I cannot express myself any better in that matter.
It's your choice: Either you go all out or you play it safe.

 

That's one way to see it, maybe there's no right answer. But in all the games I've ever played that had multiplier based score, if you mess up you lose the multiplier. I've never played a game where you lose the points too! I'm not saying just because it's like that in other games they should do it, but it simply makes more sense. You mess up, you lose the multiplier (combo) but you keep the points. The gamble is losing the multiplier, like in any other game.

 

I thought in Grid and Grid 2 it was like in AC.
I can understand your point of view but it seems to be common practice (in drifting related games) as a quick Google research indicates: if you hit anything you'll lose all combo related points and all multipliers.

 

i would like to see how much touching the grass you're talking about, i've had points stay barely getting one wheel off like this
pro drifters get a 0 on runs if 2 or more wheels go off so i find if you run off track, losing points is acceptable. as long as you can drive after, you can get the points back

 

I can't say how much touching the grass, but two wheels out is already too much penalty for me.

If in Grid it's like that then - ok, my mistake for saying AC is the only game with this system!

However I can't hide the fact that it still feels wrong to me. If I was to design the game I'd make it so you won't lose the points. Even more, I would make an "emergent" penalty, not a direct penalty. By that I mean, don't reset anything if you get out of the road, but make the drifting algorithm work only when you're on tarmac. This way, if you leave the road the combo expires naturally, and it's up to you to get yourself out of the situation and get back on the road, or else you're killing the combo yourself and losing time. So you're punishing yourself for leaving the road, the game doesn't punish you. Any situation where the game punishes you directly induces frustration in my view.

But this is a matter of taste in the end.

 

I mostly agree with this one, except I'd say "all the points up to the last combo increase" so you lose the specific slide that went out of the track.

 

This.

You certainly should lose points for the drift that went OB, but I don't see why you're losing all the points you've already earned from earlier drifts (possibly several minutes earlier). I find it ridiculous that I have to occasionally stop drifting and drive gently to "bank" the points, so that I don't lose all of them to a single small mistake.

Then again, I don't like drifting in that much to begin with, racing is where it's at, not destroying tyres, so I'm not going to be too disappointed even if nothing changes in the drift mode. ^_^