Looking for name of MMO PC racer from ~2000-2005

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  1. ave

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    This is a really weird request. Back in around 2004 or 2005, I used to play a game which I had found as a free download online (it might have been shareware, I'm not sure if it was fully unlocked).

    It's extremely hard to google "PC online racing game" and come up with that specific obscure game, so I hope someone here might know it.

    Here's what I remember:

    - You control dune buggy-type little cars
    - Scattered on the roads are little balls like in Pac-Man, which you could collect. They were used to restore health or ammo, not sure anymore
    - You can damage other players with weapons or by crashing into them until they explode
    - There were large road tracks that looked like rollercoasters, but without any boundaries (so you'd fall off frequently) --> Not so bad, as you could just as well just roam around the map without staying on the tracks
    - The maps were quite huge. I specifically remember a large desert map.
    - The graphics looked quite good for freeware or shareware. Something between early PS2 and bad Dreamcast^_^

    You guys are my last hope. I would love to just take a look at this game again in videos or screenshots and find out if there's any info about its origin or when it came out.
     
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  3. ave

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    Good guess, but that's not it. If I remember correctly, the cars looked quite tiny on the screen. It also was a game set in large open world maps rather than tunnel-like courses. There were no laps to complete, it was rather just a strange death-match type of mode where you'd encounter some other cars from time to time and try to collect balls before they could take them or kill the other players using guns and such.

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    I just remembered a major feature which I'd complete forgotten about - the cars could FLY. :D
    And the flying controls made it really hard to land on these rollercoaster-like roads where you could collect the little balls/pills. I think it felt a bit like Carbon Combat, but that's not it.
     
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