Thread: Driver's Manual

everyone post your driving tips here (fast driving, not ARMOR).

1) Oversteer, there is a slight amount of oversteer provided by the "lightweight" driving/suspension physics in BF2. Here's how to compensate for oversteer. A) Just before a turn, steer out in the opposite direction to minimize your cornering apex. B) quickly turn back into the original turn, as your rear tires break field (your original heading) let off the gas briefly for WIDE TURNS and let off the gas and tap your breaks (down arrow, S) for HAIRPIN TURNS. C) Let off the wheel and accelerate, allowing gravity (understeer) to straighten the buggy/jeep. D) Practice. Oversteer forces you inside the apex of the turn, which will cause you to lose speed and too much understeer will swing you out wide. You want to avoid oversteer (B) and nurse understeer (C) just long enough to minimize speed loss *and* roll straight out of the apex.

2) Drift, there is a slight drift-model for fast vehicles in BF* games. This has not changed in BF2. Drift is post-oversteer, it means your back wheels have lost grab of the surface and are drifting laterally in the direction of your field (original heading). You can break (opposite of tip #1) oversteer and force a drift by doing the following: A1) Letting go of the gas *before* the turn followed by a sharp turn followed immediately by full bore gas. *Or* A2) Holding the gas; turn sharply and immediately press both gas and break (requires practice) only to feather the gas through the oversteer to force the rear end to drift. Both are useful depending on the terrain, corner, and/or elevation change.

These manuevers require a great deal of speed:

3) T-Turn, this is a 4-wheel powerslide when you want to whip your forward firing arc 90 degrees and come to a complete stop. Start tip #1 for a no-oversteer hairpin turn and instead of tapping the breaks, let off the gas and slam the breaks--never letting off the wheel. Time the release of the gas with the slamming of the breaks to nail a perfect 90 degree turn. The shape will be a "T", meaning you can T-turn right or left. Hopefully your gunner is worth a damn.

4) Bootlegger's Reverse, this is a modified T-turn to 180. A) steer opposite of the pre-decided BR direction (like the beginning of tip #1) and immediately begin a T-turn off your new field, imagine two T-turns, the first based off your initial field and the second a rotated T-turn, in the opposite direction that ends with you now fielding your previous aft. B) Force drift using tip #2 but instead of holding the gas, feather the gas as you swing around and immediately after turning 180 degrees begin feathering reverse (down, S)--do not slam reverse or the breaking motion will swing you too wide. You want to feather reverse just long enough to slow to a near stop, practice until you get a perfect 180. C) *Now* slam reverse, driving backwards but faithful to the original field, allowing your gunner to cover the previous aft.

bootlegger image without the "reverse"
http://www.leacock.com/locust/loop/art/bootlegger.gif