Does anyone know if we can "level-up" guns?

[Agent Chieftain]

Wondering if I should keep some of the early game Legendary guns I got, or just get rid of them. One of them as a bunch of really good effects on it, so I'd like to keep it around if there's a way to get it on par with later level guns.

Because it's definitely not simply different receivers like Fallout 4. Seems directly tied to level.

[Supply Slut]

Both yes and no. The base stats remain and will not get better, so finding a better base gun of the same type you’ll usually just replace the original.

But you can add modifications that will improve the weapon in a variety of ways. You need to unlock research and put points into weapon mods to unlock the better modification options

[Khriptinn]

You can level up weapon damage and specific weapon type damage in the skill tree, which I assume stack increased damage say if you increase ballistic weapon damage on top of base weapon damage perk.

[Agent Chieftain]

Originally posted by Supply Slut:

Both yes and no. The base stats remain and will not get better, so finding a better base gun of the same type you’ll usually just replace the original.

But you can add modifications that will improve the weapon in a variety of ways. You need to unlock research and put points into weapon mods to unlock the better modification options

Damn, that sucks. Kinda wish they kept the Fallout 4 system, instead of having the base guns scale.

[Brian9824]

Weapons don't have levels. AFAIK a Grendel you find at level 1 will do the same damage at level 500. The only difference is the mods equipped on it that can effect its stats

[mt607]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Weapons don't have levels. AFAIK a Grendel you find at level 1 will do the same damage at level 500. The only difference is the mods equipped on it that can effect its stats

but at higher levels, you have a much higher chance for a higher tier of the same gun to show up, note, I said higher tier, not higher rarity, so sure your current rattler might be a legendary, but it's a tier one rattler, and that tier 4 rattler (now called a advanced rattler), sure isn't a legendary so it doesn't have the same modifiers, but it still hits way harder because it's a 'higher tier' which only shows up at higher levels.