I've read all the forum posts on this forum about it, I've done all the triggers, I've got the achievements, but still no paint cans. I'm going crazy over this. I want to run the game, but the paint cans are needed and I don't have them. Thanks in advance for help! :)

A few of us had this problem, including myself. I went into my completed file, looked at every QR code I could find, and after quite a while of doing this I eventually unlocked the message. I then saved my game by loading a new level, and from then on it has worked for me.

If you want to tell when you unlocked the message you can type "con_fLastLinesStayTime = 5" into the console which will show what the console's saying while you're playing the game ("con_fLastLinesStayTime = 0" to turn it off). You'll know you've unlocked the message when it says "Unlocked player message #515 (total X unlocked; X used)" when you look at the QR code. You can also use this method to test which paint message you're not getting, in case it's not the QR one that's causing the problem.

As far as I know, we're not really sure why this happens. I believe that someone once had an idea that this happens when you look at a QR code and unlock the achievement and paint message, but it doesn't get saved that you unlocked the message because you died/reset, or something like that.

First, i want to say thanks for the quick response. :) I can get paint cans to spawn, IF i do slightly different strats and unlock the laser thing and do a couple extra levels, which obviously adds a significant amount of time but i just can't get the paint cans to spawn by doing wr route. I read the post about the triggers and how you need to do 5 of them for paint to spawn, i clearly do 6 of them and it doesn't spawn. It's not until i do Don't cross the streams(in a4 i believe) that it actually triggers the paint cans. Problem i face is i need the laser thing to complete that level which means getting extra sigils to be able to then unlock the cube, so i will lose a lot of time overall. After reading your post im thinking i must be not getting one of the triggers. Ill try testing all the different triggers with what you said to do, not sure exactly how that works, but ill try to figure it out, thanks

Figured it out why it doesn't work. Voice logs and qr codes are not counting, so i would be at 3/5, i get it to work by doing the oob trigger message and the complete Don't Cross The Streams message. Both of which lose a lot of time by doing since i need to die oob for one and make the laser thing for the other. :/ Any idea why voice logs and qr codes are not counting?

Just to also clarify, non of the logs or qr codes are working, i tried multiple and they don't trigger the message.

So what exto is suggesting is how to get logs and QR codes working. You'll need to do a playthrough in which you collect as many QR codes as possible (70-80 should do it) and ALL of the audio logs (22). Then, collecting them should give you the paint triggers.

Finally got it working thanks to you guys, it took a while to get all the stuff, but its working now. Thanks :)