u/GrnMtnTrees

Ok so I'll preface this by saying that I know the *theory* of how to shift in manual (ease off accel, clutch in, shift, clutch out, accel), and I have driven a manual exactly ONCE. The one time I drove a manual was my friend's Porsche 911, and I didn't grind any gears or burn out the clutch (no, I have no idea why he thought it was a good idea to let me drive his Porsche).

I want to get confident driving a manual, with the intent of eventually getting one, but my current car is an automatic, along with every car I've ever owned.

Part of me feels like I should rent a car with a manual transmission and practice on that, so no friends will be furious when I inevitably have a bad shift.

How would you recommend learning manual for someone who doesn't have ready access to a manual?

I was waiting to join an online drift race, when I get loaded into what looks like an empty lobby, the race starts, I have no control of the car, immediately ends, says I won, and shows nobody else on the leaderboard. I was confused when it happened, but then I started getting messages saying people were going to report me.

I was genuinely unaware what happened, so asked why they reported. They said I showed up in their race and won with 0 points, two times in a row. Apparently I was in a lobby on their end, but alone in an empty glitched out lobby on mine.

One person said like they thought it was plausible but didn't really believe me, then a couple minutes go by and I get another message. Same thing that happened to me happened to this person. I told them I was glad that they reported because hopefully it draws the devs' attention to the issue.

If you see someone win an open drift with 0 points, it's been buggy. Hope PGG figures out what's up.