
Offsetting these strengths is its extremely short range of 10 hexes, the shortest of all ranged weapons in Fallout and the second-shortest in Fallout 2.

It has the highest damage-per-action-point of all single-shot weapons in both Fallout and Fallout 2, as well as the second-highest ammunition capacity of all single-shot weapons in both games. The alien blaster is a weapon of great extremes.
