I had a few games online last night, just before nodding off for Santa to come, the last of which being a tourney!
First race, first lap(ish) and someone gets eliminated using the leech beam. Fair play I think to myself, and carried on!
The same player next lap leech beamed me.. And eliminated me.. The thing that is annoying is that the leech beam diddnt stop.. I was around 80-90% still on the old armour, I got 3 weapon pickups (which I absorbed) and the beam just did not stop! After hitting a few corners, I was last by a long shot, still under the effect of the beam, I should have been well out of range, but it was still going!
In total, I probably lost around 150 energy points to one leech beam?!
I had been playing the same player beforehand, and I thought that it was a bit dodgy in single races as he was running circles around me in a Feisar (quite literally!) The player was getting boosts from nowhere that would put him well into the lead! Once I got past him, again.. boost! I did notice that when going past him, his ship was always pointing nose up, could be an indication of 3rd party software?