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Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by Kirby Sim on Jul 27th, 2003, 05:42am

Hi! I got F-Zero GX 2 days ago, and so far I haven't been playing very well. Particularly, I can't seem to get fast enough in Sapphire Cup Expert mode.

I also saw much F-Zero terminology like drifting and sliding, etc, and I had no idea how to perform these. I wondered if this is the reason why I haven't been winning cups faster than I should be?

Can someone explain to me what all these techniques are? And how does a pilot's stats or weight affect the driving?
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by Tonio on Jul 27th, 2003, 8:44pm

slide: turn while holding R or L, to take corner sharper than a normal turn
drift: turn while holding both shoulder buttons, for the most difficult turn (180deg), you can exit the virage very sharply, even if you're very fast.

choose a car with a good body and boost for GP, and an average grip (B,B,C of rainbow phenix is ideal but you have to unlock it (very hard or with AX))
good body: you take less damage
good boost: you boost faster
grip. I can't really explain this one sorry. someone help.


Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by DKL dominic on Jul 27th, 2003, 11:16pm

wait so if you can drift without slowing down, doesn't that mean that drift boosting works!?

*confused*

I need to understand this, I sure hope Tonio gets back online soon
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by FluddyFlea on Jul 28th, 2003, 04:08am

Yep Tonio said drift-turbo or something doesn't work in GX, but what is that exactly anyway? Is that gaining a lot of speed from boosting while drifting, like boostsliding in F-zero X? Tonio or David Van Moer! we need to know!
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by ErwanSciaud on Jul 28th, 2003, 04:39am

No boostsliding? If you re right, the accel setting becomes useless...
Can you perform railsliding?

Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by Dominic on Jul 28th, 2003, 06:55am

man, I need answers now!!!!

or not, I think we should give everyone at least a week with the game, maybe they'll find new techniques

but I would want to know why Boost-drifting doesn't work
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by David Van Moer on Jul 28th, 2003, 09:18am

Patience is a virtue guys.. don't want to have everything discoverd already in the first few weeks ?

Sliding and boostsliding most definately are in the game. I finally managed to stumble my way through a few empty blue screens and into the garage to buy new cars and get my hands on the Blood Hawk and Night Thunder and whoaa.. when you take these through the corners at max accel and boost at the same time the track suddenly moves VERY fast.. can't tell how fast exactly cos I'm missing everything from the hud. Railsliding doesn't work and neither do any of the FZX DT-moves ( what a shame this .. )

The biggest problem right now is that the steering is so damn twitchy ! It's very hard to keep the car straight without bouncing left-right like a tennisball and come out of a slide with good speed.
Also you seem to lose the speed you gain from the slides pretty quickly and the tracks are much longer than on FZX. The annyoing thing about this is that it's very hard to keep your speed constantly high as there's not enough boost power lying around and some tracks seem to last forever.


BTW, I also unlocked three staff ghosts so far and was able to load them and get their times displayed:

Ruby Cup :
Mute City
59"964

Vegas Palace
56"691

Sapphire Cup:
Big Blue
1'07"331

That last one was a Night Thunder slider staff ghost and it just left me behind in the corners like some cluelless noob .. a very humbling experience
I guess I still have to learn how to slide properly on this game..

The first track's ghost was done with Death Anchor and looks likes the 'jumper' ghosts on FZX where it's just a matter of boosting , keeping your grip and staying on the best lines. Raced it with the Twin Noritta and so far I'm in the 1'03 region there.


.. not much more to say atm .. I'm off playing again

DVM
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by FluddyFlea on Jul 28th, 2003, 2:54pm

(In response to DVM's post)

Huh this sounds like really pleasing news to me! I was first very worried that there would be no additional techniques to standard driving, what a bore that would be If a staff ghost leaves DVM behind like a noob, heh that probably means there's a lot noone can do yet, and ladies and gentlemen, that means DEPTH Heh maybe this is ridicolous cause noone has had it more than a few days right? but still its very good news...

When it comes to no DT-techniques in the game (discovered so far anyway) im actually not sure if i will like it or not. DTD in X can be such a kick but it also takes away from the importance of other techniques. If you can do the best DTD on some of the more DTD-oriented tracks, you probably will get the best times even if other racers handle sliding and tight lines better than the best DTDiver. Although I actually love doing the dive myself, i'd like it to not be so important as X, I like smooth boostsliding and keeping grip and tight racing lines. DTD can also be such a chore, until you get really good you'll only get back on track (with enough speed) every third try (like space plant).

I also like sequels to be different. Buying this game doesn't mean I have to stop playing X If they have different weaknesses and strengths, its more fun to change games now and then If GX does some things better than X, but maybe some other things much worse, I'll just try to enjoy the best things as much as possible and play X when I want to DTD/TDD and so on

Think about it guys, would you be happy if you had the same gameplay as X, and only having to have to learn new tracks? dont you want something new and different in terms of gameplay?

Well these are just my thoughts it'd be interesting to hear those of you guys too sorry for my bad english me be from sweden
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by Dominic on Jul 28th, 2003, 7:40pm

Don't worry david, you guys will come across something sooner or later

Hooray! there is boost-sliding/drifting!

Have you tried fooling around with Jumps? Can you at least tilt the craft? That could be a good start
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by ErwanSciaud on Jul 29th, 2003, 03:09am

Did someone tried to perform DTD?
Jumping in the air place the ship in right position then put X + left (right)? or diagonal up right?

Of course I want another gameplay!
But it would be great to discover powerful secret moves too, those moves that made you play so much F Zero X.

October is so far...
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by Nick on Aug 1st, 2003, 6:13pm

Sounds awesome! The staff ghost sliding technique is obviously going to be exciting. I'm quite glad to hear DTD likely isnt in GX as I personally find it detracts from the "pure" racing feel of FZero X. Kind of like how tap power sliding ruins MarioKart 64 when compared to the utter purity of the SNES version. Why do I have to wait till October for GX!!! Damn you!
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by Kitch on Aug 6th, 2003, 1:24pm

Anyway...... I'm getting carried away with all this snake talk. Can anyone tell me how the night thunder ghost does the sliding round the corners?
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by ErwanSciaud on Aug 21st, 2003, 03:26am

Hi all...
I just wanted to warn former F Zero x players (that haven t maybe the GX yet) about Drifts that are completely different from FZX.

Now the grip doesnt affect the same a drift.
E grips allow you to move easier during a drift.
It is possible to drift quite easy with A grip, and you can drift without loosing a lot of speed even if you configure your car with a max speed setting.

What makes your speed increase during a drift now?
An accel setting of course but more important the WEIGHT of your ship. The more your car is heavy, the more your speed increases.
On mute city you can do quite impressive 2200 (and more) kmh turbo drift with heavy car (not only with black bull don t worry^^) a the begining of the track.

Funnier than dakou that 's for sure!

Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by Dominic on Aug 21st, 2003, 10:46am

hey, that's pretty interesting, can you elaborate more on this system?

How about if I use Dr. Clash, explain what would happen
Re: Drift? Slide? How do you do all these stuff?
Post by Ryan Jenning on Aug 29th, 2003, 5:15pm

I know that this isn't really on topic to much, but I didn't want to make a whole new topic for this question:

David Van Moer: Do you do the Drift technique when you set records. I know you are anti-Dakou like an anti-smoker is agianst smoking, so I was wondering if you are against this move too?

Ryan E. Jenning