Got an alien blaster, now game seems broken

[Smig]

I just started playing Fallout 1. I just traveled east from the starting vault and I got an encounter with a crashed ufo with an alien blaster, now I'm killing everything in one shot. Am I missing some drawback, or is it supposed to be this good and I was just incredibly lucky?

[Terminus]

Alien blaster[fallout.wikia.com]

High damage and accuracy; short range.

[Incunabulum]

You were lucky - the AB is among the highest damage weapons in the game.

[psychotron666]

it's all luck, ive gone through tons of play throughs without ever finding that gun. You just got really lucky.

[cdrive1]

Yeah, if you get that...count your LUCKY STARS my friend, You have the most powerful one handed gun in the game.

[Terminus]

It's a rare random encounter, however, with a luck level of 8 of higher, you could gain access to the scenario pretty early on.

[Smig]

That explains it. I went in with luck of 10 ;)

I was worried that the game was so badly unbalanced when I started mowing through everything with it, but if it's that rare a find I've decided to take my time to enjoy my luck, hehe. I literally just walked one or two squares from the vault.

[g0r3yl0v3rz]

Originally posted by Smig:

That explains it. I went in with luck of 10 ;)

I was worried that the game was so badly unbalanced when I started mowing through everything with it, but if it's that rare a find I've decided to take my time to enjoy my luck, hehe. I literally just walked one or two squares from the vault.

Haha, nice man. Maybe try playing without and when things get too rough pull that baby out.

[nothead31]

I believe that you do have a drawback with ammo. If I remember correctly, the ammo for that weapon is super rare, so you have basically a limit on how much you can use the gun.

[Terminus]

Originally posted by nothead31:

I believe that you do have a drawback with ammo. If I remember correctly, the ammo for that weapon is super rare, so you have basically a limit on how much you can use the gun.

The Alien blaster(s) in Fallout 1 & 2[fallout.wikia.com] require small energy cells.

The Alien blaster(s) in Fallout 3[fallout.wikia.com] require Alien power cells (which need to be obtained from specific sources).