Borderlands 4 offers various skins and colors to make your character more unique. A certain type of skins has particularly captivated players.
What kind of skins are these? User @EpicNNG shares their discovery on X.com. They found that each legendary weapon has a “Shiny” skin variant that is extremely rare. However, once obtained, it would automatically unlock for every subsequent iteration of the respective item.
As soon as such a variant drops, there is an indicator that shows you that this is the variant in question. The skins are very shiny compared to the others and have rainbow effects.
Why are players celebrating the skin variants? @EpicNNG is very excited about this find and refers to it as “his endgame” because he thinks it’s pretty cool that there is so much to collect. Many users in the comments agree with him. After all, there are about 80 shiny weapon skins to hunt down.
Many compare the hunt for them to hunting Shinys in Pokémon games and bring corresponding references into the comment section: “Shiny Legendary Hunting Series? Gotta catch them all!” as @BadGuyNick comments, for example.
But getting these skins is not so easy, as they are extremely rare.
Cool Skins Require Grind
How do you get skins in Borderlands 4? Where you get the different skins largely depends on which one you have in mind. Some can be easily earned by completing certain quests, while others drop from world bosses, for example. You can also repeatedly defeat bosses if you spend money at Moxxi’s Fat Chance machine.
However, the drop chance for these skins is very low, so you need to prepare for a tough grind if you want to collect them all. But as we all know, fashion is always an integral part of the endgame, which is why only a few vault hunters will be deterred from wanting to hold their shiny skins in their hands.
If you are skilled, you can also increase the difficulty of your game in the settings to raise the value and probability of loot, significantly increasing your chances.
Other skins can be easily secured through so-called Twitch Drops. All you need to do is watch suitable streamers play Borderlands 4, and you can seamlessly bring the exclusive items into the game: Borderlands 4: Twitch Drops – How to Secure Free Rewards
