NFS Carbon drifting

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sdy284

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Ok, i just bought the game and i can't figure out how to not get those "-16120pts" while drifting & i cross over that red line in the road.

Anybody know what i'm talking about & know what i'm doing wrong?
 
Drive faster. You want that speed bar to be green or blue before starting the drift. You also want to be in those crosshatched areas while drifting. These two things will give you huge bonuses. Third thing is to chain drifts together from one turn into the next and so on.
 
you can pretty much drift the whole way through the course.. just switch side to side in the straights.. just don't hit the sides and you'll come out with at least 15X multiplier.. I got as high as 24x at one time.

let go of the gas if you're close to the walls and punch it again when you slow down.
 
ATF678 said:
Drive faster. You want that speed bar to be green or blue before starting the drift. You also want to be in those crosshatched areas while drifting. These two things will give you huge bonuses. Third thing is to chain drifts together from one turn into the next and so on.
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so my problem is i'm not crossing that red line on the course fast enough?

(and drifting with a keyboard is a PITA)
 
sdy284 said:
so my problem is i'm not crossing that red line on the course fast enough?

(and drifting with a keyboard is a PITA)
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no.. you need to rack up points before you get to the finish line.. chain the drifts to get a high multiplier
 
Yup, the key to drifting in all "3" of the NFS Underground games (yeah, I count Carbon) is to keep a drift going back and forth with as much speed as possible.
When the event starts, get as fast as you can (use nitro if you want) and slide your back end toward the wall using the e-brake. You should be able to slide along sideway and eventually start going toward the other wall. As soon as you pass the middle of the road, start pulling the stick in the other direction, tap the e-brake and hit the gas again.
In Carbon in particular it will let you more or less drift an entire race if you do it right...no matter how little you're actually "drifting."
When going around S curves, play it safe. It's better to keep a drift alive or even end one and keep the points than to hit a wall and get nothing. In Carbon it seems to be a lot more lenient with wall hits, but it's still something you don't want to risk.
 
bah, all you guys are missing my point.

In carbon, when drifting, there are these red lines on the road that when i cross them, it subtracts a large amount of points from my score. I want to know why this happens.
 
huh? what red lines? the only red line i noticed is the finish line.
 
sdy284 said:
bah, all you guys are missing my point.

In carbon, when drifting, there are these red lines on the road that when i cross them, it subtracts a large amount of points from my score. I want to know why this happens.
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they're there...& every time i cross them i usually lose points (i'm talking about the PC version btw)
 
sorry.. i don't remember seeing them.. and i also mean the pc version.

maybe someone else knows what you're referring to.
 
ZeroH said:
sorry.. i don't remember seeing them.. and i also mean the pc version.

maybe someone else knows what you're referring to.
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Before crossing the line
before.jpg


after
after.jpg


see how it takes away points?

I've seen it take away as much as 23,000
 
ok.. the red line is the finish line
what you're referring to is the split-score?
I'm not sure what that is.. did you see it actually take away that many points from your total on the upper right?
I think that may be showing you the difference between your last pts earned vs the current pts earned. I'm just assuming this works similarly to the split-time when you're racing.
I could be wrong tho.
:D
 
Pretty sure it means your 369 points behind the leader. For example, in the races, the "split time" would come up on the side showing how much you're ahead or behind.
 
dude.. that drifter in the video link i posted is flying through the course! :eek:
 
the drifting in this game is kinda strange like theres an auto drift for expample when i got on a curve thats a left curve i steer left too drift though when my drift starts it auto goes too the right even while im holding the left.
 
The drift mechanics seem really weird to me in the closed courses as well. The ones in the the canyon work a lot better. Those are the only courses I race on now. Here's a video that I made a couple weeks ago.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gK6mkp8tGZI

The key to scoring high points is to use a car that doesn't have TOO much power, because you'll need to be able to control it. You can do a nonstop drift on all the courses, it's just a matter of practice.
 
lol...thats hilarious.

yeah, the split is how far behind (or ahead) you are from the leader.
 
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