I found the Alien Blaster a short distance from Oberland Station, maybe a little NW of there toward the river, or body of water. It was located with an alien in a cave not far from his wrecked space ship, and it came with about 475 rounds of ammo.

I have a question about the capability of this weapon. Here is what the Pip-Boy displays about this weapon:

Damage: 60

Accuracy: 73

Range: 119

Here is what the Pip-Boy displays about my Tactical Hardened Combat Rifle:

Damage: 57

Accuracy: 82

Range: 185

According to this information, the Alien Blaster is no more powerful than that rifle, or maybe not as powerful as some other weapons. Am I understanding this correctly?

In Fallout 3 and Fallout NV, the Alien Blaster was so powerful that one shot would dispatch almost any enemy. Has anyone used this Blaster in Fallout 4 against foes?

I tried it with disappointing results, or what seems like disappointing results as compared to what I experienced in prior version of the game.

Fritz

This is something I don't understand about Legendary weapons. I have some normal weapons that appear to have better stats than Legendary weapons. If this is the case what makes Legendary weapons so "Legendary"?

In FO3 the alien blaster was special because every shot was guaranteed a critical hit. In FO4 the critical hit is controlled by the player during VATS and they didnt give it any other special ability so it is just a mediocre weapon.

A curious question OP, do you have any ranks in weapon related perks?

Legendary weapons are not about stats, but they have an additional ability (e.g. additional explosion damaga, additional plasma damage, unlimited ammo capacity, ...).

+1

Also it seems you are comparing an unmodded alien blaster with a modded combat rifle. You can mod the alien blaster so that it has more damage.

Even modded the alien blaster is only so-so. Great early game weapon if you can get it but late game it isn't worth bothering imo.

Legendary is just an effect like +50% damage against minelurks or double damage if target is at full health. It does not affect base damage.

Now you can move mods from one weapon to another, say you have two laser rifles, one with siniper barrel and one who do double damage on unhurt enemies: make an standard barrel will release the sniper barrel so you can put it on the legendary weapon.

^ This. The modded regular weapons you find only exist for you to nerf them down at the crafting table so you can use those mods to improve the legendary weapons. Unless you have max crafting skill and a stockpile of materials then you can just build everything yourself. If not, then horde those picked up weapon mods.

Also remember that mods that are taken off weapons are put in your backpack and not the workbench so remember to transfer them over, having too many mods can kill your carry weight really quick.

doesn t the alienblaster also do 50 or so energy damage besides nrmal damage

The weapon basically lost all purpose with the removal of critical hits in Fallout 4. Could probably give it to Max over at Freeside and he probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and his toy gun.

I don't know whether the Alien Blaster does energy damage as well as normal damage. My Pip-Boy only show what I posted, above. I didn't research this question, though. Yes, I have some weapon related perks, but I don't recall what they are without looking at the in-game data. It looks like the Alien Blaster is nothing special in Fallout 4, judging from what I read here in the responses. There's a lot I don't understand in this and other Fallout games. Even so, I love Fallout 4.

Fritz

Alien blaster, I think, counts as pistol. Your hardened combat rifle counts as rifle. If you have rifleman perk, but not (what was the pistol perk) then that alone shows better damage to your rifle. That means, the damage the game shows for your gun in its data listing includes the benefit you get from gun type related perk. But yes, what others have said, alien blaster is not all that special (then again getting it is fairly easy too) I used it earlier in the game on hard situations before my rifleman perk kicked in well enough to make any pistols largely inferior for me in most situations.