Drift · FAQ

Dedicated drift servers, pocket chain HUD, tandem multiplier, SWARM x WDTS boxes, DRIFT leaderboard.

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FAQ & guides

• 🚀 Getting Started — New to Assetto Corsa or HammerTime? Content Manager, CSP, joining servers, cars and tracks, common errors, wheel and graphics basics.
• 🖥 UI & HUD — Score HUD, Store, Tuning, Guides, lap ghosts, drive challenges, leaderboard, teleport and car color — with screenshots.
• 🟢 NOW ONLINE — Discord live roster, categories, join / car pickers, and the in-game NOW ONLINE button (JOIN / CARS / SPEC / WATCH).
• 🟣 Party — Crew of up to 6 across the whole HammerTime fleet, JOIN LEADER, party voice — not the same as drive challenges.
• 🌀 Drift — Dedicated drift servers, pocket chain HUD, tandem multiplier, SWARM x WDTS boxes, DRIFT leaderboard.
• 🛣 SRP Routes — Skip Two Lanes vs Two Lanes, Portal ON hops, classic U-turn backup, ghosts per route.
• 🚗 Sierra Smart AI — What Smart AI does on Sierra de Cadiz, traffic difficulty voting, tips.
• 🏁 Progressional Ladder — Nord / Spa / Monza Progressional Ladder — open fleet, ladder points, class multipliers.

🌀 Drift · Servers, HUD & Tandem

Dedicated drift servers, pocket chain HUD, tandem multiplier, SWARM x WDTS boxes, DRIFT leaderboard.

🌀 How to Drift on HammerTime

Dedicated drift servers — no traffic packing, a pocket chain HUD, and a DRIFT leaderboard that is separate from run PTS. HammerTime already scores slides, overtakes, and near-misses on every traffic map. Drift servers are a different product: the road is empty, the HUD is built around a continuous chain, and another human nearby multiplies that chain (tandem). Where to open it • Content Manager → HammerTime → Drift category • In-game NOW ONLINE / HT SERVERS → Drift • Discord Servers assistant → Drift • This FAQ thread + hammertime.gg FAQ → Drift Not the same as • Traffic score-attack (SRP, Sierra, LAC public, …) — those keep the gold PTS cluster and Heat/Wanted • Most Wanted — chase/heat product. Drift HUD is off there • Drive Challenges (honk 3×) and Party (honk 2×) still work on Drift *Full leave + rejoin after a big HUD update. Menu reconnect is not enough.*

Part 1 — Live Drift servers

Eight live boxes in the Drift hub category. Search the live name in Content Manager. Original Drift maps (existing HammerTime cars) 1. HammerTime Drift Akina Downhill — 194.156.90.234:8005 2. HammerTime Drift LA Canyons — 194.156.90.234:8006 3. HammerTime Drift PCH — 194.156.90.234:8007 4. HammerTime Drift — 194.156.90.234:8008 SWARM x WDTS dlc (no traffic · same car list on all four) 5. Brooklyn Park — 194.156.90.234:1084 — CToretto Brooklyn Park (32 pits) 6. La Canyons — 194.156.90.234:7086 7. Klutch Kickers — 194.156.90.234:7082 — ADC Klutch Kickers — Drifters Paradise (30 pits) 8. Ebisu North — 194.156.90.234:5082 — Perma Ebisu North Course (45 pits) SWARM car list: Team SWARM Car Pack V3.2 (30 cars) + WDTS Enjoy v3.02 (5 cars). Content Manager Install missing content serves the track and those cars from this VPS. Hub YAML names are live. If a box is missing from the in-game hub list until the next hub restart, Content Manager and NOW ONLINE still join it.

Part 2 — Join, cars, and first load

Join 1. Open Content Manager with CSP 2. Find the server (name above, or NOW ONLINE JOIN) 3. If CM asks to Install missing content, let it — SWARM / WDTS / Brooklyn Park / Klutch / Ebisu are hosted here 4. Pick a driveable seat and join In-game hop: NOW ONLINE / Servers tab JOIN shows SWITCHING SERVERS. Keep Content Manager open. Do not close that CM window. Reconnect from the pause menu does not pass track/layout ids, so CSP can false-flag a missing layout on maps that have none. First load after an update Leave to the menu and rejoin. That loads ScoreUI + the pocket Drift HUD. A menu reconnect is not enough. What you should see • Gold PTS / BOOST / combo cluster (same as the rest of the fleet) • Bottom-left Markings · Ghost · Portal · Chief • A compact DRIFT chain plate immediately right of that stack • SOCIAL and NOW ONLINE bottom-right, same window size as every other box If SOCIAL opens off-screen, it was an old layout — current Drift boxes use the same default window positions as the fleet. Move from the title-bar dots; scale from a corner; KEEP saves it on this PC.

Part 3 — Drift HUD (pocket chain plate)

The chain HUD sits in the empty pocket right of the bottom-left Markings stack, bottom-aligned with that cluster, left of the compass. Both score UIs stay on screen. The chain plate does not replace PTS. (An earlier version hid the gold cluster — that is retired.) Plates are straight rectangles (not slanted). Footer shows your drift-leaderboard rank and chain PB, for example #12 PB 7,545,629, plus BANK when a chain just paid. What the live plate shows while you slide • Chain points (the big number) • Combo (builds the longer you hold) • Tandem multiplier when another human is close • Praise flashes: DRIFT MODE · NICE DRIFT · DEEP ANGLE · ON FIRE · UNTOUCHABLE · TANDEM · DOOR TO DOOR · SWITCH · CHAIN BANKED · NEW DRIFT PB Party / team invites pop above this pocket so they do not cover the chain HUD or the Markings stack. LOCAL clock + Time Vote sit on the Guides/Leaderboard row (same as the rest of the fleet). Leaderboard cycle on Drift / Akina: HIGHSCORES → LAPS → TOKENS (when on) → TEAMS → DRIFT → back. The DRIFT tab is chain PBs — not run PTS.

Part 4 — How a chain scores

Start a chain Hold a real slide for about 0.4 s. The plate flashes DRIFT MODE and the chain starts at 0. What counts as a slide (any one of these) • 10 km/h+ with enough yaw (donuts / tight rotation count) • 18 km/h+ with ~12°+ slip angle • 14 km/h+ with ~16°+ slip and yaw A crash animation kills the slide immediately. Points while the chain is live Each tick: base × angle × speed × combo × long-hold bonus × tandem. • Angle pays mid-slide; very deep (>120°) drops off — keep it hooked, not spinning out • Speed scales up through ~72 km/h (cap ~2.35×) • Combo climbs toward 8× the longer you hold • After 3 s of chain time, a long-hold bonus starts stacking SWITCH — change drift direction after ~0.45 s in the chain for a burst (420 × combo × tandem) and a combo bump. The plate flashes SWITCH. Bank / end Stop sliding and you get about 1 s of grace. If you do not hook it again, the chain banks. Only chains of 250+ bank into your session total and can become a chain PB. Smaller wiggles are ignored so a tap does not pollute the board. Chain score is not the gold PTS run. Both can climb at once.

Part 5 — Tandem (human proximity)

Another human driver near you multiplies the chain (not run PTS). Multiplier • 4× at about 1 m center-to-center (DOOR TO DOOR) • Linear down to 1× at 10 m • Beyond 10 m: no tandem The other car has to be moving (~10 km/h+). AI / traffic does not count. Most Wanted cops do not count. The scan only runs while you are sliding so the extra HUD does not hitch CSP. How to use it 1. Line up with a mate on the same Drift box 2. Match speed and stay inside ~10 m (closer = more) 3. Hold the slide — the plate shows TANDEM / DOOR TO DOOR 4. SWITCH together for stacked bursts Party of up to 6 and Teams [TAG] both work here. Voice is still party proximity (mates only). Teleport-to-mate is same-server, behind their car. A planned AI lead-car tandem (cars that drift in front of you for you to match) is not shipped.

Part 6 — Boards, PBs, and `/resetpb`

Chain PB (this product) When a 250+ chain banks and beats your best, it posts to HTbot (/drift-chain). That is the number on: • In-game DRIFT tab • Pocket HUD footer (#n PB …) • Discord HT Drift Chain Rankings (/postdriftboard) — same GIF banner language as overtake, silent edit in place, ranked by chain PB (not run PTS) Link Steam so the board can credit you. Run PTS / lifetime score is separate. The gold cluster, Highscores tab, ranks, and tokens still use lifetime score-attack points (slides + overtakes + near-misses + combo on any server). /resetpb (Discord, Steam-linked) clears your stored score-attack PB and score-based Discord roles. Tokens and lifetime points stay. It does not wipe the drift-chain board. Chain PBs only move when you bank a bigger chain. Weekend Party 2XP (Friday noon → Sunday midnight Pacific, 2+ in party, ~90 m) still boosts run PTS, not the chain formula.

Part 7 — What Drift boxes do not run

Off on Drift / Akina • Traffic / Smart AI / AI-per-player scaler (empty road) • Heat / Wanted meter and Most Wanted chase • Glencoe MODE / Roadbook / Glen Garage / Cinema chrome — converted boxes had leftover Shutoko timing stripped so they match Brooklyn Park • Center-swap HUD that hid PTS (retired 2026-08-29) Still on • Gold PTS cluster, Store, Tuning, Guides, SOCIAL (Teams / Party / Chat / Friends / HELP) • NOW ONLINE, Time Vote, Crew Chief, teleport extras, car color (player slots only) • Rank badges / [TAG] / [#n] nametags • Party voice, teleport-to-mate, team vs team HUD under the hearts Most Wanted is the opposite: one Shutoko collab box, Noto crimson HUD, no Drift chain plate.

Part 8 — Tips & common questions

I don't see the chain HUD • Confirm the server name contains Drift or Akina • Full leave + rejoin (not menu reconnect) • Look right of Markings / Ghost / Portal / Chief, not on top of PTS Install missing content fails / slow • Use Install missing content from the CM server card (this VPS hosts SWARM, WDTS, Brooklyn Park, Klutch, Ebisu) • A truncated zip looks like *_2.zip / “zip directory missing” — wait for the host file to finish, then retry SOCIAL / STORE opened off-screen Fixed to fleet defaults. Drag the title-bar dots; KEEP to save. ASSISTANT (owner / Noto 8) does not hide SOCIAL. Why did my chain vanish? Under 250 points does not bank. Crashes cancel the slide. ~1 s grace after you straighten — hook it again to keep going. Can I tandem with traffic / cops? No. Humans only, moving, inside 10 m. Klutch / Ebisu showed MODE / Roadbook Leftover Shutoko timing on converted boxes — stripped. Rejoin those two if you still see Glen chrome. Related • FAQ What's New — latest player changelog • FAQ Party — crews of 6, JOIN LEADER, voice • In-game Guides tab while you drive _HammerTime · hold the slide · stay close · play fair_

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