so the blasters are laughably bad, they're so bad that most of my pawns are legendary masters in shooting and even with consecutive direct hits on mechanoids I'm only getting 3 or 4 damage per burst (total) - and the weapons are all either excellent or above. maybe it works for less advanced factions, but its a wonder how the galactic republic or the empire waged any war at all with blasters that are arguably tampon guns. the vanilla guns are stronger.