Photon Filters

[Paradroid]

Just wanted to check I'm understanding this correctly...
So I'm looking at the article for for Photon Filters, and it seems to suggest that if I want a green Flamberge (excal) then I need to somehow purchase/hunt 22 Photon Filters.

Photon Filter

wiki.pioneer2.net

Am I missunderstanding something, or is this assumption correct?
Because if it is...

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[Spuz]

No idea where you got 22 from unless you are making 2x Heart of Flamberge coloured Green (in which case yes that is correct).
You start at blue with HoF so need 11x to get back round to Green (since there are 12 total colours).

edit: I agree that it sucks you have to use so many PF (for all 4 weapons I need 31 total to make them all Orange ) but it is what it is. The reason the system is like that instead of just selecting a colour is that in that instance they would have to create an item for each colour instead of one item which changes colour and there is only so many slots in the index or something along those lines.

 

[Paradroid]

There are 24 colors shown in the article though.

(and purple/rose have the same hex for some reason)


Edit: Ah I see, the 2nd column is just for photon bullets.
Nonetheless, it's still hella expensive to change to certain colors. There really should be a way to at least go backwards instead of just forwards.
(Or at least make filters more obtainable so that it doesn't matter).