reboot: Alarm signal & Vertex
 

In SRII (mark I) I used to love to collect vertexes. I would often fly with three of the best and sell the rest. In Reboot I have yet to get a single Vertex. Most of the time they toss out the menthoprod, tech-detector and maybe a dianode or pixilite. Rarely I might get a weapon, such as a turbogravir or maybe a torpedo launcher, but never a vertex. Is there any trick to getting a dominator to give up its vertex?

blast wave localizer...not a 100% but more than 0% :)

But I have to get the BWL first. :confused: Does the BWL help with Alarm Signals or just when you blow things up?

Yes, you have to get the BWL first but there are farming options for artifacts (black holes being the most common one).
Good question about the alarm signal, I remember testing this and discovering they didn't...but I may remember it wrong.