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C.A.T.S. (Crash Arena Turbo Stars) is an asynchronous PvP created by Zeptolab of Cut the Rope fame. In this game, you build your own battle machine and pit it against others.
Parts you can have consist of:
- Chassis (or Bodies)
- Weapons
- Gadgets
- Wheels
- Toolboxes
C.A.T.S. provides examples of:
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: Stickers which you can attach on your vehicle are obtainable in the Championships (which you sadly don't get to keep between prestiges). Also, your catswear are obtainable as you progress or only in some events.
- Anti-Debuff: The Magic Lamp gadget (in the Ultimates) removes debuffs in your machine, such as stun from the Frost Sprinkler and the Flue.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: Only in the All-Stars (Ultimates) and Grand Prix (Championships), but lasers, boomerangs, stingers (or drills), and death lamps (or the Death Ray) can pierce the plinth in the middle of the arena that normally blocks rockets and bullets, damaging the opponent directly. Molotov Cocktails are also lobbed over the plinth.
- Arrange Mode: The Ultimate League, unlocked after reaching Stage 15 (no Prestige). The basic gameplay is the same, but the machines used there are built with Ultimate parts, which are visually larger than the ones used in the Championship League, and each Ultimate part is unique per player.note
- At Arm's Length: The Hidden Claw (in the Ultimates) invokes this, being the only melee weapon that holds your opponent out of reach of other melee weapons.
- Backwards-Firing Gun: The Double Rocket (in the Championships) and Ultimate League equivalent Santa's Double Rocket, as well as the BBQ Gun and the Double Laser (in the Ultimates).
- Balloonacy: The Lifter gadget launches a balloon attached to a plunger at your opponent, lifting the vehicle from the front.
- Battle Boomerang: The aptly-named Boomerang and its Ultimate counterparts Golden Carp and Diamond Carp. They are shot towards the opponent, dealing damage twice if they get behind the opponent.
- Betting Mini-Game: You can wager a Championship part on a battle to increase magic bonus (up to 60%) on that part.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: You can buy gems, newly introduced parts, or Universal Legendary parts with real-life money. The latter two are usually unobtainable otherwise.
- Canon Immigrant: Sort of. Some Championship League parts are added to the game after their Ultimate League counterparts, such as:
- Deep Freezes (Santa's Freezing Gift)
- Death Lamps (Death Ray)
- Energy shields
- Anti-gravity wheels
- Climbing Wheels (5 Alarm/Tiger Shark wheels)
- Cap: Regardless of material, Championship Parts have maximum level of:
- Level 6 (1 star)
- Level 11 (2 stars)
- Level 16 (3 stars)
- Level 21 (4 stars)
- Level 26 (5 stars)
- Chainsaw Good:
- Chainsaw-type weapons damage the oppponents when their blade makes contact. The Championship version has lower range but higher base damage than Drill and Stingers (that work the exact same way).
- Also, circular saw Blades on rotating handles, although they operate more like maces.
- Charged Attack: Laser-type weapons have slow attack speed with an exchange of dealing multiplied damage, such as Championship Lasers firing once every 2.5 seconds and dealing 2.5 times its displayed DPS damage, while the Swift Laser and Double Laser (both are Ultimate parts) having the fire rate and DPS multiplier of 1.5 and 2, respectively.
- Color-Coded Item Tiers: Championship parts are color-coded based on their material:
- Wooden parts: Brown (yellow on its stars).
- Metal parts: Grayish blue.
- Military parts: Camo green.
- Golden parts: Gold.
- Carbon parts: Red and dark gray.
- Confusion Fu: The damage number shown on opposing cars only shows the total DPS of all weapons in that car, not those of individual weapons.
- Diminishing Returns for Balance: Each subsequent toolboxes installed in a particular part cost more.
- Edible Ammunition: The BBQ Gun from the Ultimates shoots hamburger on the front and hot dog on the back.
- Energy Weapon: The beam-type weapons shoot close-range beams and aims at the opponent (unlike most other ranged weapons).
- Equipment Upgrade:
- Championship parts can be upgraded by merging another part on it, filling its upgrade bar. If it's full, the part will level up, increasing its base stats.
- Championship toolboxes can be used to add fixed amount of stats on a part instantly without having to fill its upgrade barnote , but subsequent toolboxes installed on a particular part cost more each.
- Ultimate parts can't be merged on another. Instead, obtaining duplicates of an Ultimate part will fill its upgrade bar. If it's full, you must then pay some cash to upgrade it.
- Ultimate toolboxes increase stats of an Ultimate part by a certain percentage, but their effects are temporary, unlike Championship ones.
- Game-Breaking Bug: The way the game handles collision detection sometimes causes your car to stuck in your opponents' and shake around the arena, as shown here
. - Game Plays Itself: You prepare your battle machine in your garage. The machine operates by itself during gameplay.
- Gatling Good: Minigun-type weapons fire up slowly at first but revs up to eventually having More Dakka.
- Grenade Launcher: The Dragon Mortar and the Uncle Sam (both in the Ultimates) are these.
- Healing Factor: Medkit gadgets (in the Championships) and the Nanobots Station (in the Ultimates) heals your machine after your machine's health goes below 50% (for the former) or 80% (for the latter).
- Immune to Flinching: The Lifestone gadget and Train wheels in the Ultimates stabilizes your machine and prevents it from being flipped (such as by the Lucky Horseshoe).
- Improvised Weapon: Wooden Championships parts are usually these, such as soda bottles for Boosters (or Backpedals), light bulb with lampshades for Lasers, and cardboard boxes for Rocket Launchers.
- Kill It with Fire:
- The Flamethrower (in the Ultimate League) breathes fire that damages the opponent and burns them, dealing some extra damage over time.
- Molotov Cocktail-type weapons leave fire on any surface it touches, including the opponent, dealing damage over time.
- More Dakka: Miniguns (Championships) and the Spike Strike (Ultimates League) fires slowly at first, but then fires rapidly.
- Not the Intended Use:
- Backpedals are intended to, well, backpedal your machine after going forward for a while, for ranged weaponry. Some Sneaky-type bodies (in the Championships) that have two gadget slots can have two Backpedals on them, allowing you to flip around and damage your opponent from behind.
- Shotguns allows your vehicle, especially light ones and those with anti-gravity wheels, to flip around the arena thanks to their heavy recoil.
- Power Creep: Parts released later (and reworked Ultimate parts) tend to have better gimmicks and/or stats compared to earlier ones. For example:
- Forklifts (arm-like gadgets that lift the opponent on the front at close range) are generally outclassed by the Lifter (in the Championships, unlocked at prestige 4) and the Lucky Horseshoe and the Firework (in the Ultimate League), which can do long-range lifting.
- The Train wheels in the Ultimates (which, being wheels, do not cost energy) also have the Immune to Flinching function of the Lifestone gadget (which costs 10 energy).
- The Blazing Mace (Ultimates) is just the Ice Cream Mace with more base damage and burns the opponent on hit.
- Power Nullifier: The Stop Sign gadget (in the Ultimate League) blocks the opponent's ranged weapons periodically.
- Rainbow Pimp Gear: Ultimate parts tend to be released in sets (which are purely aesthetic), resulting in this aesthetic for the players' machines (especially the wheel pairs).
- Rare Candy: Championship League Toolboxes can be merged into parts to increase stats by a fixed value (doesn't add experience to said parts), depending on the Toolboxes' stars and material. Averted with the Ultimate League counterparts, in that their effects are temporary.
- Reset Milestones: Reaching the 24th stage in the Championship League allows you to increase the Prestige count by one, restarting at the first stage as well as resetting all Championship parts, toolboxes, stickers, and coins.note It also gives you some gems and Ultimate Cash, as well as allowing you to obtain Championship parts unavailable in previous prestiges (such as Miniguns, Shotguns, and Whale-type bodies).
- Ring Out: A machine that goes out of bounds will be instantly destroyed.
- Set Bonus:
- Super parts in the Championships have bonuses (up to 60%) that only apply to certain type of parts.note Legendary parts give 100% bonuses.
- Averted with some Super (and Legendary) parts that have "Universal Bonuses", which apply to any kind of wheels, gadgets, bodies, or weapons.
- Ultimate League parts with Extraordinary (tier 6) rarity has an assigned sponsor, with the machine having increased health and damage depending on the amount of installed parts with the same sponsor.
- Some skills in the Championship League allow you to have stat bonus when using multiple wheels (or weapons) of the same type in one car, regardless of their material and stars.
- Short-Range Shotgun: Shotgun pellets spread widely, and dissipate at range.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: Shotguns (in the Championships) and the Trombone Cannon (in the Ultimates) deal fantastic damage at close range, and their knockback (both to the wielder and their opponent) keeps melee weapons at bay.
- Stalked by the Bell: If a match lasts too long without a machine being destroyed, walls on both sides of the arena will collapse, revealing a bulldozer on each side with spinning blades that move to the center, destroying any machine that makes contact with the blade.
- Support Party Member: Gadget parts do not deal any damage, but each hinders the opponents in some way.
- This Is a Drill: Drills (and longer but weaker Stingers) damages the opponent when their blades make contact, the exact same way as chainsaws.
- Tranquilizer Dart: The Tranquilizer Gun gadgets on the Championship shoots a dart that stuns the opponent at range, but it can be deflected by drills (or chainsaws) and miniguns.
- Unsportsmanlike Gloating: If a machine is destroyed, the opposing cat will come out of the cockpit and laughs. It doesn't happen if the cat would clip through a wall or ground.
- Wave-Motion Gun: Lasers shoot a destructive laser that travels across the arena instantaneously.
"What's important is you're safe. So I won't even have to figure out what I'm going to tell your mother."
— Uncle Tony
