Digitial Drifting (most widely known as Double Tapping or DT) is a technique which is used to drift in Need For Speed: Underground using “Keyboard” or “Joypad” controller inputs outside of the Drift mode present in the game. The method to initiate it is different from car to car, and it can be categorized by the drivetrain of the vehicle.

Before starting to drift, you need to learn how to make the front of the car to dip-in more towards where you want to DD than steering like normal. This can be achieved by lifting off then steering, inertia steering (go for a short amount of time outwards of the corner and then steering inwards), hitting walls, tapping the brakes before cornering or switching the surfaces (for example sidewalk to asphalt, dirt to asphalt etc.). All of these methods can be used individually or in combination to help you with different kinds of corners, cars or steering assists.

After doing the “dipping-in”, you follow the manouver with the drifting part of the technique. It can be primarily divided into RWD, FWD and AWD drifting.

It is mainly doable by dipping-in your car in the corner, fastly press gas and spam a direction key towards the exit of the corner. Depending how hard you do the spam, you can either grip or spin out. Spamming slowly makes your car turn a bit better than normal but still it feels like it will understeer, and spamming fast makes it spin out. Best way to DD here is by finding a balance in your spamming and learn every corner.

Starting to turn towards the corner, you spam gas and a directional key fast simultaneously. You can spam and hold a few miliseconds a few times to make the car “slip”. If you spam too fast, your car will understeer. Spamming once will create an effect similar to the Double Steer's “fishtail”, making the car to slightly drift.

Starting to turn towards the corner, you spam gas and a directional key fast simultaneously. Compared to FWD DD, you can spam alternatively to gain grip mid-drift. Learning this car is less relevant because there are no top-tier cars in this game with AWD drivetraind

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