Fortnite skins are actually responsible for making the gaming experience even more enjoyable than it actually is. Players love mixing and matching customizable items according to their choices. It can be pretty hard to unlock certain achievements and sometimes you wish to share these weapon skins with some friends as well simply by using V bucks to purchase skins.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could actually share and gift the skins under your control with another friend? Well guess what! Now you can actually do that as a recent update made by Epic Games in Fortnite gives you the opportunity to actually make the gameplay more interesting.
There’s no need to panic as the sharing process is extremely simple and far from being mind boggling. If you’re sick of watching complicated YouTube tutorials, we’re here to solve the problem for you. This guide will help you in sharing Fortnite skins with your friends within minutes so just follow along these easy steps and get to work.
Steps
- Open the game and open the gift shop panel.
- This step is sort of a obvious thing but make sure that you actually have V Bucks in your account to purchase the specific skin. Otherwise, you wont be able to gift the specific skin you were intending on gifting to a friend.
- Click purchase on the item Shop that you intend to gift to your friend. The game will allow you to choose whether you’re keeping it for yourself or plan on gifting it to someone. In the case choose the second option.
- In the next step, scroll down from the Select Recipients window and after landing on the username of your friend click Continue. There would be a statement at the bottom reminding you that you cannot refund the gifts that you’re about to send. This can alert the player once again that he or she is about to do something that cannot be reversed. So, if you want to change your mind you can still do it.
- At the bottom of the panel the amount of items you’ve gifted in a day are also mentioned for your ease. So even if you forget the amount of gifts Fortnite can remind you that you’ve 2 or 3 gifting options left for that day.
- Fortnite also provides you a chance to add additional messages while sending the gift so you can say something extra while sending the gift to another player as well. You can also personalize the gift by choosing the color of gift box you want to send the emote or skin in, with a sweet message of your choice.
- Even after completing the whole procedure, if the recipient fails to receive the skin make sure that he/she already doesn’t have the same skin present in their account. If the gifts are delivered successfully you’ll get a confirmation update within seconds.
That’s it you’re done with the process and the gifted skins will reach your friend soon enough. Wasn’t it easy?
Platforms for gifting
IOS doesn’t actually support the latest update until now so you can gift skins only on platforms like:
- Android
- PC
- PlayStation 4
- Switch
- Xbox One
Limitations
Before you go ahead with the process it’s important to know certain limitations dictated by Epic Game’s policies. According to these limitations, a player cannot gift the skins to a player that hasn’t been a friend on the platform for at least 48 years.
The player also needs to achieve success up until level 2 to be deserving enough for the process. Furthermore, no further changes can be done in the purchase and gifting process once it’s been completed which makes gifting skins completely refundable.
So in case you gift the skin to the wrong username, you cannot get it refunded so make sure you’re paying much attention while gifting skins. The players also need to be aware of the fact that only 3 skins can be gifted during a 24 hours period, no more than that.
On the user’s account the multi factor authentication should always be enabled. Lastly, only the items that are currently available on Fortnite’s official site can be shared and gifted any other weird activity can result in suspension and account banning.
Under any circumstances in case you want to stop receiving gifts you can also disable the gifting option on your account. Simply head to the Account Settings and disable the option to stop receiving gifts from your friends out of the blue. Moreover, you cannot transfer currencies like V bucks or Emotes by using this same process as Fortnite still hasn’t allowed its players to make these steps. To understand the process in an even better way you can also send gifts to yourself. In this way you’ll be made aware of how your friends would receive a gift from your side.
Conclusion
The gifting feature is something that’s been long awaited and it can simplify so many things. So, it’s time you utilize this new update by Epic Games. Until now, players aren’t allowed to actually gift battle passes or V Bucks to their friends but anything that’s directly or indirectly related to skins or emotes can be easily gifted and transferred with these few steps Using the simple steps mentioned in this guide will surely be helpful the next time you gift or receive Fortnite skins.