reboot: Alarm signal & Vertex

[DRNewcomb]

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?

[modo]

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

[DRNewcomb]

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

[modo]

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.