Do critical shots affect legendary effects?

For example, I have a combat rifle with the 'Explosive' effect, i.e. it lets projectiles explode on impact, dealing additional damage.

If I use a critical shot, does that affect just the base ballistic damage of the bullet, or would it affect the additional explosive damage as well?

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Critical Shots boost everything, Perk Power, Effects, and even base damage. That means that you will get pretty much damage from Critical shots.

Im pretty sure a critical shot is just that, regardless of the legendary effect eg: ive used two weapons identical same kill one i put legendary effect on the other not and both states resulted the same except the explosive effect looked good and with bloody mess perk cool too.

I would think that the critical would affect the explosion as well. Usually a critical shot boosts all stats on that ammunition.