But I should confess: you aren’t really upgrading your Tourist as much as you’re leveling up your crafting stations. Here’s what you need to know.
The first thing you have to do before you can begin upgrading your Tourist in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is get through the Graveyard zone.
You’ll have to sneak your way through some catacombs and kill a few walkers before you run into Henri. Shortly after that encounter, you’ll find an encampment built into the side of a parked bus.
This bus camp becomes your home for the remainder of the game, and it’s also where all of your crafting workbenches are located.
The crafting workbenches are split between Survival, Gear, and Guns. Each workbench can be leveled all the way up to Level 10, and each rank has its own unique reward.
Some especially cool goodies are hidden at the higher tiers of these perk trees, such as the Grass Cutter, a two-handed katana that’s unlocked when you reach Level 10 in Gear.
Here are the leveled upgrades for each crafting workbench:
Survival
Level 1: Nutria Stew Level 2: Sterile Bandage Level 3: Laminated Bow Level 4: Arrow Bundle Level 5: Survival of the Fittest Level 6: Bowyer Level 7: Lure Arrows Level 8: Herbal Medicine Level 9: Toughen Up Level 10: Restorative Bandage
Gear
Level 1: Shiv Level 2: Custom Footwear Level 3: Bayou Slugger Level 4: Strength Training Level 5: Night Shift Level 6: Deep Pockets Level 7: Steel Meat Cleaver Level 8: Nail Bomb Level 9: Protective Gear Level 10: Grass Cutter
Guns
Level 1: . 38 Revolver Level 2: . 38 Revolver Ammo Level 3: Double-Barrel Shotgun Level 4: Shotgun Ammo Level 5: Bolt-Action Rifle Level 6: 7. 62 Rifle Ammo Level 7: 9mm Pistol Level 8: 9mm Ammo Level 9: Gunsmith Level 10: Pump-Action Shotgun
It’s also possible to find hidden recipes out in the world of The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. These recipes unlock special items like the .45 Revolver, Exploding Arrows, and more.
To craft items and upgrade your crafting station, simply walk up to the workbench and hover your finger over the item(s) you want to craft. You’ll need the correct amount of raw materials to do so.
Scavenging for raw materials is as simple as picking items up, slinging them over your left shoulder into your backpack, and then scrapping them in the recycling bin inside of the bus.
You can tell which items contain certain crafting materials by holding them up to your face at eye level until a detailed tooltip appears.
As a rule of thumb, always collect Boxes of Stuff whenever you come across them. Orange-colored Boxes of Stuff contain plenty of useful materials for upgrades and items at the Survival station, but there are other kinds of Boxes of Stuff that offer up tons of materials for the Guns and Gear stations as well.
That’s all you need to know about how to upgrade your Tourist in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners — or, should we say, how to upgrade your crafting station?
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