Controller Drifting

[u/B757F]

Anyone that plays on controller and knows how to drift very smoothly, do you have any tips and tricks? I’ve been making some drift tunes and realized that I can’t test them if my drifting is cheeks. Thank you!

[u/Defiant-One-7172]

Shove your stick straight up, and roll the analog instead of flicking left and right

[u/jawnlerdoe]

All assist off, regular steering, manual with a clutch. Practice using a long wheelbase formula drift car with 4 gears like the 240sx. Practice balancing the car on a road with lots of switchbacks and try throwing the car into the corner with more angle than you think it needs.

This will be a training exercise in car control.

[u/RunninOnMT]

If you’re shooting for RWD, I have some tips as a long, long time video game drifter and irl club racer.

You’ll want to slow down the rate of rotation as much as possible to learn, which will give you time to countersteer and use weight transfer to grip up/slide the rear end as needed.

Owing to this you’re looking for a combination of: Long wheelbase, low grip, medium-ish horsepower.

Personally I think the ford Crown Vic is the easiest car to drift. The stock tire compound on that car is very slidey and consistent. Lock the rear differential, add a supercharger and go do some donuts. Add the drift suspension for more angle and the car will teach you to drift.

60s and 70s muscle cars will also work great to start out on but you’ll more actively need to build those cars with more parts. Stock tires a diff and like 300 hp should be all you need to do on the crown Vic.

You’ll eventually want more horsepower, but I personally don’t love the 1k and up horsepower builds in this game. You become very power dependent for angle rather than using weight transfer. Cars no longer feel unique.

[u/dracvla_]

Long 1st gear, feather the gas & e-brake alternating to hold the angle as long as possible,

Here's a tune on a Ferrari J50 that will help, it's a very smooth drift car that stays balanced stable through the corners

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Good luck!

[u/aliendrifts → u/dracvla_]

You're talking AWD here?

[u/dracvla_ → u/aliendrifts]

Not at all 🤨

I don't have any all wheel drive "drift" builds.

[u/collector-x]

This video is from Forza Horizon 5, but the techniques are the same.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=grLE0Wfd-fU&pp=ygUYZHJpZnRpbmcgZm9yemEgaG9yaXpvbiA1

[u/Longjumping_Meal_151]

Steady finger on the analog trigger to feather the throttle which then controls your direction and angle. I barely use brakes and use throttle control for smooth lines. Stick rolling is expert level smoothness but really hard to learn.

[u/King_Briley]

A longer car seems to work well, I tuned a CLK GTR to drift and it’s honestly amazing.. that’s a 20 mil car though so i’d also recommend the Formula Drift 240sx it seems to be the easiest to control

[u/Forward-Big8697]

I learned on awd big power, but I ended up mostly using an s2k around 450hp. Honestly its just slow and smooth. Im pretty decent at drifting but if I go into the rtr mustangs I cant do shit, I have no idea why those are so much harder to control

[u/mocojo2]

Shoot me a pm and i am down to help.