Appreciate all you’re doing @Seaman - what I will say is that if Gao Ding was a Heavens member, he would have been included in that section of the character profiles in the strategy guides- as I said in the original post and on the blog, the Complete Guide lists him as a ‘passerby’ character...
@LemonHaze contacted me about this on Discord and has shown me there are indeed instructions to spawn him during the Lucky Hit job.
I have also tried in the Game Jam beta but couldn't get him to appear there either - also the part time job can be very glitchy or unfinished there, in some cases...
Didn't think of Japanese videos! Will look into that.
I'm sort of in the same boat - taking time off work this week for mental health reasons so I also have an excuse to dig into this further :p
You're very welcome my dude.
Appreciate you investigating so thoroughly @Seaman !!
For what it's worth, I've also looked up YouTube playthroughs that feature the Lucky Hit job to see if Gao Ding has appeared for any of them, but nothing so far.
Appreciated! I'm fairly convinced the players are spawned randomly (as sometimes you'll encounter the same person twice or more in the same 'session), but I'll make a point of noting which players appear and in what order (and time of day) and report back when I start a playthrough shortly...
I wasn’t noting the in game date I must admit - one random thought I had is that he might show up on your last day before leaving for Kowloon (as random as that’d be) but I’ve not tested it yet. @LemonHaze has however determined that he should only appear in Fortune’s Pier and South Carmain Qr...
Made a blog post about it on Shenmusings for Shenmue Day :)
https://shenmusings.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/have-you-seen-me-possibly-missing-npc-in-shenmue-ii/
So I've figured out that it's just these 8 NPC's you see over and over :p
https://shenmue.neoseeker.com/wiki/Kuang_Lu
https://shenmue.neoseeker.com/wiki/Shiji_Shi
https://shenmue.neoseeker.com/wiki/Cheng_Yu
https://shenmue.neoseeker.com/wiki/Cang_Zhou...
To add a bit more context - here are some pics of the other three characters either asking Ryo about something else or refusing to play him at Lucky Hit (if Gao Ding is (or was) in the game, his role and dialogue would likely be much the same (you still have to shout 'Do you want to play Lucky...
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