The Surge
67 Achievements
1000 XP
40-50h
Carbon Cat
Defeated Carbon Cat
15 XP
6.0%
How to unlock the Carbon Cat achievement in The Surge - Definitive Guide
Carbon Cat is the second and final DLC Boss, and can be fought during your second visit to CREO World (after getting to the R&D area in main story campaign), there are two distinct phases to this boss fight. The boss is located at the base of the No Data Available area, right after you go through CREO Station.
Make sure you fight it in the Iron Maus gear to unlock the missable trophy Carbon Cat vs Iron Maus.
Phase 1
Not much to worry about. The mechanized monster is in its base form. It will lunge forward, jump to your location and toss debris at you. Side strafing works well and stick to dashing and sliding attacks right after it finishes its attacks. Should go down pretty quick.
Phase 2
After draining its first health bar, the monster will absorb the debris around it and grow to a bigger mechanized monster. It's attacks are pretty much the same just bigger in scale. It will use a lot of sweeping moves that have ridiculous hit boxes. Be wary about that. At times it will create a debris storm around its body. Wait till it disperses, so that the armor will come off for a few seconds. This is a good time for a combo of say 2-3 attacks to deal a lot of damage. Also use your drone to constantly hurt it. Nothing much has changed in this phase except the boss can reach you much easier. Just keep dodging and strafing till an opening is available, and at that point dashing and sliding attacks work well to bring it down.
Final Boss Fight | Carbon Cat (Using Iron Maus Gear)
Story related and can not be missed.
Note: Make sure you're wearing the Iron Maus gear during this fight!
in the second phase it is almost the same, but you need to run counterclockwise. It’s better to keep the distance large enough so that the boss wants to charge a hurricane, after which he has a moment of “recharging” with open weak points - this is where you need to hit him. you can also add the same drone as in the first phase. You can still hit after the boss's buckle, but you risk catching the stump.
I passed it somewhere at energy level 55 with level 3 equipment... with more leveling up, the boss is unlikely to be able to do anything.