The Paintinator power-up.
The Paintinator as seen in a level.
The Paintinator, is a paintball pistol SackPeople can acquire from a floating, rotating pickup placed in the level. It was released as part of the Metal Gear Solid expansion pack. It is aimed with the right analog stick and fired by pressing R1. It is one of the three Player Enhancements alongside the Jetpack and Scuba Gear. It is included in both LittleBigPlanet: Game Of The Year Edition and LittleBigPlanet 2.
As well as featuring in the story levels of the Metal Gear Solid expansion, the Paintinator can also be placed in levels created by players with the expansion pack. Players can then play the level and use the Paintinator whether they have bought the pack or not.
The Paintinator can activate Paint Switches, which are activated by shooting it with paint ball rounds from the Paintinator. It can be set to require more than one hit before activated. The appearance of a Paint Switch is of a green bar when full. As it is shot the bar gets smaller as it changes to yellow, then finally red before being activated. The Paint Switch also activates numerous functions and bolts.
The Paintinator can also be used to shoot other SackPeople, knocking them back like a weaker version of the slap and covering them in paint. Finally, it can be used to destroy unshielded brains on creatures.
Associated Trophies
There are 3 trophies associated with The Paintinator enhancement:
- Paint Sharer: Create a level with the Paintinator upgrade in it.
- Paint Splurge: Fire 5,000 Paintballs.
- Quick-fire Artiste: Fire 40 paintballs in 5 seconds.
Trivia
- The colour of the paint is determined by the player's Popit colour while customising your Sack person.
- If you place a sticker on your hands that is larger than your hands, the excess amount of the sticker colours the Paintinator. Which allows you to change the colour of the Paintinator itself.
- There is a glitch with the Paintinator. If a decoration is attached to the Paintinator and then the player removes the Paintinator, the decoration will then be hovering in midair next to the Sack person.
- It is possible to use the Paintballs as separate objects. In Create Mode, shoot the Paintinator, then pause, then, capture the Paintball.
- While using the Paintinator, you are not able to grab things like usual.
- Getting burned once by fire also results in the same effect as being a victim of a smack attack
- If you go in water while you have a Paintinator you will drop it.
- The paintinator's trigger is not visible.
- It is related to the Creatinator .
- Since the paintinator was released after the initial release of the game, players who's PS3's are not connected to the internet cannot use the paintinator without first updating the game.
Raiden and Solid Snake obtaining a Paintinator gun from a Paintinator Powerup.