The replacement that the Lone Wanderer reloads the blaster with will appear with the same blue glow as normal.

The spent alien power cell will appear dimmer when reloading, as if drained of power.

With Mothership Zeta installed, the Lone Wanderer will be abducted before being able to pick up the alien blaster from the crash site, though it can be picked up after they return.

The alien blaster can be given to Protector Casdin for the usual payment options.

In an early piece of concept art (see below), the weapon was portrayed as a small alien ship, with an added grip to be used as a handgun.

On Mothership Zeta, none of the aliens use this weapon besides the captain (which is a unique version).

The blue neon glow turns off when the player character enters sneak mode.You are obsessed with using and maintaining a wide variety of conventional firearms. Gun Nut is a perk in Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. Dogmeat can be used to help recover the blaster and scattered ammo from the crash site without triggering the Mothership Zeta quest line. Gun Nut The Vault Fallout Wiki Everything you need to know about Fallout 76, Fallout 4, New Vegas and more Gain access to Rank 1, 2, 3, and 4 gun mods.In some cases, the armory master may take the alien blaster from the gun case and use it, allowing one to loot it from his body. Sometimes, an Enclave soldier may carry an additional alien blaster. Template:Icon Adams Air Force Base - Held in the launch platform base's armory on the mobile base crawler in a locked gun case (Hard) along with plenty of ammunition.There are also 120 alien power cells found at the site.

The blaster can be found next to the body of a dead alien lying a few feet away from their crashed spaceship.

Alien crash site - Located due north of MDPL-13 power station and northwest of the Greener Pastures disposal site.

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Template:Icon Captain's Sidearm - A unique, cleaner and shinier variant of the alien blaster which uses alien power modules.

This weapon is affected by the Pyromaniac perk.

Firelance - Harder to obtain, yet slightly weaker than the blaster the Firelance causes fire damage if the target survives the initial blast.

The alien blaster can fire a total of around 125 shots, equivalent to 13 reloads, from full condition before breaking but will not jam until approximately 120 shots. This weapon also has the effect of disintegrating any enemy killed with a critical hit, identical to a laser weapon (with the exception that the disintegration effect is colored blue instead of red). This weapon will be able to take down most foes with a single shot to the head. The alien blaster is one of the most powerful weapons in the game due to a critical hit being guaranteed.

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