The drifting events are likely the most difficult portion of Table Top Racing: World Tour. Unlike just about anything else in the game, they have nothing to do with getting around the track quickly. Instead, they require an entirely unique approach.
When doing the championship drifting events, the first thing you want to do is make sure you have the right car. In the garage tab, under the street racer’s category, you want to make sure to buy the very first car. Called the Rally’s Cool 72, this car has the best drift ability in the game.
Go ahead and then upgrade the acceleration and handling all the way up. If you have the money, upgrade top speed as well. While still getting a feel for drifting, its better to leave the the top speed lower. You can turn it up or down at anytime in the garage (R1 and L1 on the PS4).
Once you have your car, its time to get on the track. The game automatically equips drifting tires to your car for drifting events. Immediately you’ll realize drifting is about getting up to speed and staying there while keeping the car under control. Unlike a game like Mario Kart for instance were drifting is its own button, the cars in Table Top Racing will do it on their own whenever drifting tires are equipped.
In order to drift, start at the outside of the turn, tap your brake or let off the gas depending on how sharp it is, turn towards the middle of turn, and continue to pump and maintain the gas to keep your speed up as you make your way around.
As you turn, you will rack up points. The longer you can keep that combo going the better. If you slow down too much, straighten out, or loose control and the car spins out however, the points will stop coming in. If that pause is long enough, the combo will end and the points will be added to your score.
While that might sound bad, the alternative is far worse. If you so much as tap the wall (or fall off the track for that matter) your combo won’t only stop, those points will be erased.
The Finer Points of Drifting
In drifting, controlling your car is far more important than going anywhere particularly fast. Once you start to get a feel for the car, go ahead and turn up the top speed. The faster you take the corners, the more points you will get.
With this in mind, the boost power-ups are just as important in drifting as they are in the time trials, if not more so. Using a boost power up while drifting will rack up the points. This is doubly true for the super powered boost (collecting two power-ups before using the boost). A third to half of the way through the turn, just as you start to be able to see around the corner, use the boost. Collecting and using the boost power-ups at the right time are a huge part of being able to hit the target scores.
Since there is nothing requiring you to actually go around the track, it is possible to find areas of the track wide enough and try to do doughnuts in place. With enough practice you can find the exact right amount of gas to keep your speed high enough to do this. But since you will only be in a single spot, you won’t be able to collect the power-ups, making it substantially harder to get higher scores.
To get the highest point totals, you will want to continue drifting combos from one corner to another. In order for this to work, you will have to find the proverbial ‘sweet spot’ when it comes to your speed. Going full throttle will end with you in a wall, while not enough speed will leave you simply turning, without accumulating points. Pumping the gas and using the brake sparingly can allow you to make it around the track without ever breaking your combo.
When the 90-second timer for each event runs out, it will allow you to continue your current combo until that combo ends. Once you perfect connecting multiple turns together, this can become a way to continue to score points long after your 90 seconds are up.
Having completed the championships, it’s then time to turn to Table Top Racing’s special events. Each of these gives you a specific car you have to use in the drifting event, making them much harder than normal. Regardless of the car however, if you follow the same points as in the championship events, you will be pulling in the stars in no time.
Unfortunately there is no quick and easy trick to drifting in Table Top Racing: World Tour. Once you understand what you need to do though, it comes down to practice and patience.
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