Am I toast? Tint Bug

[Kityhawk]

I love this game but my save seems to have a bug that means I cannot upgrade any of my tints. I have found 3 or 4 different upgrades for them but it always says I have zero and cannot upgrade. But I also think I'm too deep into the game to start over. Am I going to be able to finish the game without upgrading the tints or is it a waste of time to try?

[2seks]

You should be fine.

I often forget they exist.

[Variability's Brother]

Yeah I think I had this misunderstanding. When you find tint SHARDS, that increases the AMOUNT of that potion you have. When you find SHAPE of tint, then you upgrade its QUALITY.

[Fanta]

Do you know how those upgrades work? I don't, not sure what is needed to upgrade the quality of the tints, and what to upgrade the number of tints available.

[Variability's Brother]

When you find a tint SHARD, the amount of that tint is automatically increased. Doesn't go into your inventory, your total potion amount can be seen at any rest flag.

When you find a SHAPE of a tint, you take that item to the Curator to upgrade expedition resources and upgrade that specific tint's quality (i.e. heals more, gives more AP, more HP on revive).

There are far more SHARDS than SHAPES. I believe each tint only has 2 shapes to find. I had the same misunderstanding as OP, I'd find tint SHARDS, look for them in my inventory and see nothing. Go to the expedition upgrade and not be able to upgrade. But tint SHARDS are automatically applied.

[Kityhawk]

Originally posted by Variability's Brother:

Yeah I think I had this misunderstanding. When you find tint SHARDS, that increases the AMOUNT of that potion you have. When you find SHAPE of tint, then you upgrade its QUALITY.

Thanks, I can't remember off the top of my head if I've just gotten shards or not. I might look up the location of a shape to see if that's what's going on. I'm about to go to the Monolith but am currently going through some side areas I skipped earlier to level up and pick up any items I might have missed.

[Ogami]

There are only 2 upgrades for each potion type in the game.
From small to normal to large.
By the end of act 2 you should have all potions upgraded once.
The final upgrade for each potion is in act 3.

The tints you find are just increasing the amounts you can use during combat.
You start with 3 in each category and i think the max is 10 if you find them all.

[tenchu400]

Honestly depending on your play style it doesn't matter particularly where you are. There's pictos for just about everything. I'm at a point now where I hardly even consider any of the tints in combat. Unless I made a bad mistake and need to revive but there is skills for this to. I will eventually go back and collect what I am missing at some point.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by tenchu400:

Honestly depending on your play style it doesn't matter particularly where you are. There's pictos for just about everything. I'm at a point now where I hardly even consider any of the tints in combat. Unless I made a bad mistake and need to revive but there is skills for this to. I will eventually go back and collect what I am missing at some point.

Pretty much this. You get so many health related pictos, health at parry, health at attack, health at enemy kill, health at sneezing and so on.


Apart from the unlucky 1 hit kill that needs a revive potion i never use the tints at all.

[Variability's Brother]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by tenchu400:

Honestly depending on your play style it doesn't matter particularly where you are. There's pictos for just about everything. I'm at a point now where I hardly even consider any of the tints in combat. Unless I made a bad mistake and need to revive but there is skills for this to. I will eventually go back and collect what I am missing at some point.

Pretty much this. You get so many health related pictos, health at parry, health at attack, health at enemy kill, health at sneezing and so on.
:lunar2019grinningpig:

Apart from the unlucky 1 hit kill that needs a revive potion i never use the tints at all.

"Apart from when I need it, I don't need it."

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Variability's Brother:

"Apart from when I need it, I don't need it."

There are 3 kinds of tints. I only ever used one and thats very rarely.
So no clue why you need to nitpick my statement. 2/3 of the tints i never needed.