Drifting Discussion

What is your favourite drift car in Beamng? It could be a mod of some sort or a custom configuration. My favourite is the 1989 Ibishu Pessima Zenith Coupe because it is lightweight and easy to drift if you have drift steering, welded rear diffs and luminaire coilovers and sway bars. I added a bit more power so I could give it more beans. Also, share some drifting advice here and show off some drifts if you like.

 

One Time , i made a custom d-series and accidently , i made it an easy drift vehicle. in first Gear , it suck but in second , it Can drift for like a long while .

 

I don't like drifting heavy vehicles because it feels unnatural and it is too slow to respond to my actions

 

Of course it will be vivace for me. The vivace is like one of the best cars to be ever made to this date. Its handling is insane and even a newbie can drift with that car. Lookswise also its pretty cool. Enjoyable ride when driving vivace. Fun Fact: It was one of the reasons I bought the game

 

The only reason I own a wheel and pedals is for drifting.

I come from sim drifting in assetto corsa.

Drifting in beam has come a long way from where it once was. It used to be very unintuitive and difficult to feel where the front wheels needed to be pointing. With each update drifting becomes more and more natural.

The JBX100 mod is by far the best 'out of the box' drift car but even that suffers from steering wobble at full lock.

I would love a proper drifting themed update for beam, with a focus on proper steering angle kits with stronger suspension arms designed for the high forces at high angle.

If beam felt like AC does for drifting I'd have very little reason to ever play any other game again.

I've found the grand marshal to have the best feel of the vanilla drift cars.

One thing I really don't like about the vanilla drift steering is the quick ratio rack. I still like to retain the full 900° of steering rotation and the vanilla quick ratio drift steering just makes everything too twitchy with the low steering wheel rotation. Some extra lock would be nice aswell.

I've played with the various drift steering mods and none of them feel better than the JBX100 imo.


I used to try drifting in beam and very quickly give up and go back to AC (I've been sim drifting over 15 years so if it doesn't feel right I'll just go back to the sim that does feel right) but I can actually enjoy a sesh on beam now and enjoy the drifting rather than just getting frustrated.


Interestingly, powersliding a stock car feels exactly as it should, its only once you use the quick ratio steering that things start to feel odd.

 

I've been drifting for many years in video games. Started with Forza motorsport on the OG xbox. Got myself a sim setup about 2 years ago and have sunk 1000+ hours into Beam. I will say that assetto corsa is much easier to learn how to drift on, but there is something incredibly rewarding about drifting in Beam.

My favorite car to drift currently is the 200BX. The JBX is also very good but I prefer the look of the coupe (especially the KLJP notchback variant)

I have to agree with Fussyfez that the steering is "wobbly" at full lock. Hopefully this issue is remedied in a future update to the mod or game. The vanilla drift steering is terrible with my wheel so I usually default to the CJD drift steering. I've noticed the CJD drift steering is much more responsive and has a bit more angle over the vanilla drift steering.

The Grand Marshall is my second favorite and what I learned to drift with. The independent rear suspension mod is a game changer. The limo version is probably the easiest thing to drift in the whole game. The long wheelbase is super forgiving.

 

I use BeamNG mostly for drifting and grip racing with my FFB wheel. Right now my fav drift cars are the Pessima Drift config (my default car actually), and the ETK I drift config. These two in particular feel very responsive and grippy at the front, and it's not always the case with other drift configs. Weirdly enough I never managed to enjoy the 200BX even though a lot of people seem to have it as their favorite, I just can't drift this car properly.
It's great to have a topic for drifting, for instance I'd love to learn how to make drift suspension settings from scratch, so I could try and make good configs for different cars.

Edit: Also yeah the 4WD rally Vivace rocks at drifting too, I wish I could recreate this feeling on other 4WD cars

 

I have a formula for drifting suspension. Stiff at the front and soft for the rear, so with race suspension, make front anti roll bars go up as well as stiffness and damping and with the rear do the opposite. If it is too oversteery, then increase the values I said above, too understeery then do the opposite.

 

Cool, I'll try when I can! But yeah recently I discovered that in order to make a drift config, it's always good to start with the default race config of said car, push the caster to 100% and increase the camber until it feels responsive enough
Also can't right now but we should all share our favorite maps to drift in BeamNG

 

Hi everyone!
This one is going to be an extense text, I tried hiding it in SPOILER, but didnt worked as intended.
So unless you want to know how it was for me to get into BeamNG and drifting, go directly to the end

First time I saw content from BeamNG was on a YouTube video called "GTAV leaked physics video!!", like 10 years ago. GTAV finally came out on September that year and... vehicle physics wasn't the ones that I expected.
Managed to find that video again, and found that it belonged to a thing called BeamNG.drive.
I did a Google seach and found it.
I played the tech demo for one year till i get a decent PC, then I bought it for 11€.
A couple years later I decided to buy a steering. It was a G92+shifter but I spent more time playing Assetto because... well, you know how Beam was 8-7 years ago... I started playing BeamNG seriously once I crashed my first car in real life (MK4 VW Golf TDI 115hp).
I started thinking that a crash happen when you cannot handle any situation while you're driving. So I started driving hard at Beam, started using slow motion to understand what happen when I force the car while oversteering, and started learning a lot about how to crash...
That last thing leaded me to start focusing on how to NOT crash a car.
I learned to AWD drift and left the idea of drift RWD because I thought it was an impossible thing in BeamNG.
Life was great, I learned a lot from the game and even saved some other real life crashes due to cognitive memory from all the hours spent behind a virtual wheel. Then one night I crashed my second car.
Fall sleep at 3a.m. while driving and hit the rear end of a long trailer at 160-180kmh.
You know how that kind of crash is, so being here harmless is what some people call a miracle for me.
Days after that I started driving the only steering left for me.. the virtual one. And some days later, playing MP, I saw a dude drifting a 200sx as smooth as silk.
That day... I knew that if that guy did it, maybe I can do it too. Tried with EVERY car and it was imposible, but with a little practice and some weeks, I started drifting the Bluebuck. I was so happy that I can finally drift RWD!
Some weeks before that I saw Initial D for the first time in my life. If you already saw it, you know that it somehow changes your life and understanding of the Man and Machine thing.. Since that, I knew that Drifting was not going to be a forgotten dream anymore. I bought a handbrake, and started taking it seriously (2-3hrs, 5-6 days a week on my free time as a 9h-5d working guy) but that old 200bx... drift it was far for me.
I tried and I tried, but my rear end keep spinning. So next step was research about how to tune drift cars in real life, and started a build from base 200bx to a drift machine. I didn't knew in that moment what was the thing that leaded me to build it and drift it, but with time I saw how essential the tune is on a vehicle for any different purpose that the one it was made for.
Started learning more about tuning and started tuning and drifting every car in the game, always vanilla.
Maybe some of you remember that post from a guy saying that he decided to leave BeamNG because he faced a situation where you have to decide between deal with real life situations or BeamNG... you know, I feel that guy. I know what it is to see the potential in yourself that this game can bring out and have to decide if you want to spend time training there, or hanging out with friends, gf, family... I had to decide. So I decided quitting my job.
I'm going to be 30 years young this year, and been saving money since I owned it, so I took a break from surviving and started living. I know that not everyone can afford that, but for me, as a banana saving, lonely living ape, it's a path I can take today. Maybe not tomorrow... but for today I can do it. And if not.. you know everyone really learns after the crash, not before.
In less than one year (2months unemployed) I went from [1 success, 9crashes] to [9 success, 1 crash] in any drift or drift sequence and learned the true basics of drifting trough BeamNG, of course, everything applicable in real life courses. (irl 3rd car was an e36 who still allive)
It was a long way to this point, and a lot of learnings, but even if it's just for a moment, I can tell that I'm really living my dream, like for real I thought it was imposible... But BeamNG taught me one thing beyond physics and cars:
Nothing is imposible if you have the ability to recreate it.
And I cant tell it's true. BeamNG have a lot for polishing yet, but I spent 11€ for this almost a decade of entertainment, learning and constant updates.
This devs are not devs for me anymore. They really are like a family.
Cause they give to all of us much more than a game, they give us an opportunity to imagine a different view and understanding of driving in one single tool.
It's up to you to start learning how to use it.
For me, there's a lot to do and learn before "Completing the 100% of BeamNG" if that's even possible. But definitely the drifting did just started.
There's a lot of updates to come, even the tire thermal simulation, so a lot of things will change, and we have to be prepared to learn from a different perspective.
What a path we did.
Thanks a lot for taking your time reading this, for real.
Now lets go to it...

So my personal favs are:

RWD: Ibishu 200BX Custom build - 540hp - Drift tires
This one cannot ressist to drift into the logistics course (WCUSA)


AWD: FCV Vivace Custom build - 800hp - Race tires + Nitro
I love to drift this one on racetrack (WCUSA)


But I literally enjoy tuning and drifting almost every vehicle on BeamNG
In this video you can see from the 1 to the 7 the cars i use to drift the most:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FKTe890Cs3A

If you want to see some drift montages with path camera, I have Tik and Tok with this same name, also YT.

Thanks a lot for creating the thread.
Have a nice day everyone!

 

I built drift cars from almost every single car available but these two are my favorites. Miramar is lightweight and easy to control, and I-Series has a V12 which can power through everything so I can play with the throttle and steer with it alone. There are a number of mods involved of course. I also like the looks of both.

 

A slightly modified Grand Marshall has always been my go to.

 

Anyways, my drifting zenith is below.

 

Short video of me messing around practicing

 

What are your thoughts on the camera look ahead system? It felt like a blessing at first because I really wanted to try that, but I actually have to re-learn so much I just disabled it, I can't drift with it.
On the other hand, couldn't this system be used to make a widget showing you the angle of your drift?

 

I actually quite like it, my settings for it is limit is 25 and smoothing is 100.
Also, the refreshed 800 series is quite nice to drift. I used the diesel 3.0 with 320 ecu and diesel 6 speed transmission with sports tires with your usual welded diff and drift steering and it goes quite nicely. The only thing that holds it back for me is my skill issues, I'm gonna need to learn to control my throttle like I did to learn how to drive the scintilla.

 

I've experienced exactly what you described. In the end I disabled it too.

Currently I'm far from good, but I've put like 8 hours total into drifting and I'm already having fun.



^ Using only interior cam and steering wheel. That's in JBX100, any diffrent car and I constantly spinout. Like vanilla drift configs are for me way too difficult to take control of.

 

Bruh come on that's pretty good. The Grand Marshall is pretty forgiving to drift in 3rd gear if you want to try another car. Also having the huge steer angle like the JBX100 on other cars would be cool at one point

 

I've been drifting for a little while now and have really liked the I-Series drift car. The only thing that lets the I-Series drift config down is the drift tires. All the drift tires in the game suck on high-power drift cars, but they do OK on low-power builds I've found. I just slapped some sport tires in the I-Series drift config and drifted that, didn't even need a tune.

Overall, I think the I-Series is the best in-game drift car, though I haven't really drifted anything else. Just my 2 cents to the thread.

 

That's some good drifting there! I wouldn't say that's far from good, it's better than anything that I can currently do! You might have to upgrade the radiator though, lol.