The San Saba Songbird is an incredible Legendary Pistol in Borderlands 4, and while on its own, it packs a mighty punch, a current unpatched glitch is destroying the meta by ensuring you’ll never need to use the Crit Knife again. the Songbird glitch in Borderlands 4 allows players to reach absurdly high damage numbers, and all it takes is the press of a button. Below, we’ll outline how to get the Songbird and how you can easily do the glitch to make farming bosses in Ultimate Vault Hunter Rank 5 an absolute breeze.
How to Get the Songbird in Borderlands 4
Trinket Crevass Abandoned Auger Mine Walkthrough
Players can get the San Saba Songbird by killing Rocken Roller, the boss found within the “Trinket Crevass” Abandoned Auger Mine in the Ruined Sumplands, Carcadia Burn. Within this Auger Mine, players can travel through and farm Rocken Roller, providing them with a mighty pistol for their troubles. The video above will showcase a full walkthrough of the Trinket Crevass Auger Mine so that you know exactly where to go! Regardless, the boss fight is fairly simple, except Rocken Roller is a Vile enemy, meaning he has protective crystals before he can be damaged. Explosive weapons are great for destroying these crystals, but persistent damage will work wonders, as the crystals will reform after a while. To damage Rocken Roller, simply use Incendiary weapons, which are effective against his Flesh health bar.
How to Do the Songbird Glitch in Borderlands 4
In order to perform the Songbird glitch in Borderlands 4, you will need to empty your magazine until you have 0 bullets. You will then perform an automatic reload animation where you pull open the gun and eject the casings, but at this point, you need to switch to another weapon, then immediately switch back to the Songbird. Here’s a more step-by-step process:
- Remove two weapons from your loadout (PlayStation and Xbox only)
- Shoot the Songbird until the magazine is empty
- Switch weapons with Triangle+Triangle / Y+Y / 2+1 in rapid succession so that you never see your other weapon, but instead re-equip the Songbird
- Repeat the switching weapons step as many times as you want without reloading to stack a damage buff
- Reload the Songbird and shoot it at a boss to see the damage!
This means that you need to cancel the reload animation, switch to a weapon, but switch back to the Songbird before the other weapon has been swapped out, and repeat as many times as you want to stack the damage buff from the Songbird’s special effect. This glitch is made possible by Songbird’s special effect, in which you gain +100% Damage for 5 seconds after swapping Guns, but swapping Guns and canceling the swap and reload stacks the Damage infinitely.