Drift mode!

Kevin Ascher · Nov 29, 2013

Tried the drift mode with the E92 and the Italia at the drift track yesterday!
What are your highscores, boys and girls?

Kevin Ascher · Nov 30, 2013

Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak said:
Lol, I am tired after 30 lvls. I don't think I could last long enough to reach even lvl 50. And I am actually going to the gym. Maybe that is my mistake... I am using too much force to move steering wheel.

Haha, relax mate

If the FFB is set up well, you hardly need to do anything with your hands other than returning the wheel after the drift when the rear tires begin to grip again.

Kristóf Kerekes · Nov 30, 2013

Joco Gorenc said:
I'd definately lower the FFB for drift mod. But hey, you can press ESC and take a pause anytime

That's actually a bad idea. If you are doing it right, then higher FFB should do the work by itself without touching the wheel, only controlling the car with the pedals.

Kristóf Kerekes · Dec 1, 2013

Here we go once again. I am officially the first one to reach Level 100 in Drift Mode (according to the Global Achivement stats of Steam, it stood on 0% before I did it)

Surprisingly I still had ammounts of fuel left in my car, so I continued on for a bit longer:

Such a session, really. It kinda got me tired even.

Joco Gorenc · Dec 1, 2013

Congrats!

How long did it take?

Kristóf Kerekes · Dec 1, 2013

About 1 hour and 20 minutes of constant driving. I don't think that's a lot to be honest.

Joco Gorenc · Dec 1, 2013

What gears did u use most(I guess 2nd) and which parts of track?

Kristóf Kerekes · Dec 1, 2013

3rd gear the whole session, I didn't really shift into 2nd at all.

Truand2laBiffle · Dec 2, 2013

have you saved the replay?
I think most of us would love to see it uploaded

Paul Lock · Dec 2, 2013

Well I managed level 7 which was 7 more levels than I thought I would get!

Kristóf Kerekes · Dec 2, 2013

I saved the replay indeed, but there's a problem with the current replay system. I don't really understand how it works, but when I tried to watch it again it looked like a lot of it was cut. I think there's a cap at saving replays. Anyways here it is, uploaded:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dz6q0d87jwvjpf4/Level 106 BMW M3

Truand2laBiffle · Dec 2, 2013

thank you

Graham Laing · Dec 2, 2013

Kristóf Kerekes said:
I saved the replay indeed, but there's a problem with the current replay system. I don't really understand how it works, but when I tried to watch it again it looked like a lot of it was cut. I think there's a cap at saving replays. Anyways here it is, uploaded:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dz6q0d87jwvjpf4/Level 106 BMW M3

It's on a loop, I am not sure of the time, but perhaps 10 mins or so. Once you are at the end, you start recording over the beginning, losing previous laps.

I am sure that it will be extended in the near future, I've plenty of memory and hard drive space

On a side note, I would like to see a hotkey available for starting and stopping the replay. This way you could start the replay after the replay overlay has disappeared off the bottom of the screen. Great for FRAPS etc.

Jason Copp · Dec 3, 2013

Where do I find this "drift spec" E30? I set up the e30 for drifting as best I could and still sort of suck. Maybe Level 5 if I'm lucky. I own an E30 and I can't drift it worth beans either, so I guess its realistic.

Kevin Ascher · Dec 3, 2013

Jason Copp said:
Where do I find this "drift spec" E30? I set up the e30 for drifting as best I could and still sort of suck. Maybe Level 5 if I'm lucky. I own an E30 and I can't drift it worth beans either, so I guess its realistic.

There is no drifting version of the E30 (yet). Only for the E92.

Kristóf Kerekes · Dec 3, 2013

Just to get some rate of interest. Should I bother making a setup for E30 to make it a bit more driftable than it is currenty? I didn't yet try to drift that underpowered dawg

FenixGTR · Dec 5, 2013

This evening I got to level 50, took about 110k points.

Aristotelis · Dec 5, 2013

Kristóf Kerekes said:
Just to get some rate of interest. Should I bother making a setup for E30 to make it a bit more driftable than it is currenty? I didn't yet try to drift that underpowered dawg

Nah... I mean yes you could... but wouldn't be nice to have an M3 with an engine swap from an E46 and lot's of lock?

Joco Gorenc · Dec 5, 2013

Aristotelis said:
Nah... I mean yes you could... but wouldn't be nice to have an M3 with an engine swap from an E46 and lot's of lock?

Sounds tasty!!

Kristóf Kerekes · Dec 5, 2013

Aristotelis said:
Nah... I mean yes you could... but wouldn't be nice to have an M3 with an engine swap from an E46 and lot's of lock?

Definiately. I could get it to drift at least half-decently now. I'm totally enjoying the underpowered feel of the car. You really have to keep the momentum in order to keep that drift up, which is at least a level of difficulty, after the E92 being able to drift anywhere with any lock.

What I'm missing currently from the E92 drift version is more range on the camber value, and playing around a bit with the suspension stiffness or at least anti-roll bar settings. That's totally missing for my mind.

Jason Copp · Dec 6, 2013

Yeah, I tried out the E92 drift for a bit. It's like a shitshow with all that power and lock, not really much "feeling" involved. I had to stop though because the sound of that E92 is just offensive. My neighbour has a '08 m3 and it sounds like angels having angry sex, this, not so much. I see better sound in the 0.3 update.

Anyway, the E30 M3 S1 with semislicks, no rear camber and 40psi rear tires, full front negative camber is driftable. You have to unsettle the car and have the entry speed *perfect* and you can hang that 'dawg' out. Feels nice. It took me about 20 minutes to get the hang of it, and I can't connect much, but it feels nice.

My E30 is a 6cyl with a turbo so I can't really compare, but I know that when the rear let's go it snaps around like a guy's head at a Victoria Secret Christmas Special. I think it feels comparable.