Question about Dragon & Tiger and lucky find

[Jinrow]

Hello, I’m replaying the game this time on Steam, and I have a small curiosity about Dragon & Tiger and lucky finds.

Does anyone know if there’s any kind of restriction for an agent to obtain their lucky item?
In the Japan area, Hercules Sporting Goods and Traveling Entertainer never ever gets the lucky item.
I’ve tried spending billions, but it never gets the umbrella.

Could it be that the umbrella it’s supposed to get is one that’s not available in the chapter I’m currently in (7), and that’s why I never get anything? Right now, the only umbrella available in the store is the Gentleman's umbrella, but maybe the one it gets is another that I don’t have access to yet.

It’s just a simple curiosity because with other agents, I do get their lucky items, but this one agent just doesn’t.

Thanks a lot.

[13LACK ORDER]

as far as i know. no. the lucky items drop is compeltly RNG. you can increase chance of increasing lucky item if you equip certain item and increase the payment

the good way to save money on the nearest phone after you start the research then load the save game if the lucky item isn't drop

[Hotel Security]

Concerning this, make sure you take note of the Benkai Amulet that "Improves Equipment Search results." This is a godsend for Searches and lucky finds.

There are some items that will NEVER show up unless you do the search with the Amulet equipped...though I wasn't aware this applied to lucky finds.

Also be aware there are some items that will never show if it IS equipped. So, at times, you may have to remove the amulet if you're not getting a certain item.

My rule of thumb was trying a search three or four times and if you're not getting what you want, equip/unequip the amulet and try it the same amount of times. In almost every case where I wasn't getting the drop I wanted, this helped a lot.

[Jinrow]

Hello, thank you so much for your response.
In reality, it was just mere curiosity, as in this playthrough I’ve decided to try and get every item at least once in the searches, and so far, this specific item is the only one that hasn’t shown up.
But for the other agents, if I give them plenty of money, they almost always get the lucky find on the first try.
I checked, and I don’t have it equipped (I thought I did).

I’ll try again when I get the items that improve the searches, just in case it turns out that this agent has an almost nonexistent chance of getting it.

I don’t really need it, and I’m maxed out on money, it’s just my curiosity, hahaha.

What I did notice, comparing it to my PlayStation playthrough, is that the results report doesn’t show the number of a certain type of item that’s obtained.
So, to test this out, I went back to that platform and noticed that for each part, it indicates “x###.”
Although I can’t remember if it’s always been like that, or if it was from a certain chapter onward.

Anyway, it’s just trivial stuff. Asking about this specific lucky find is because curiosity got the best of me, it’s not even necessary.

Thanks a lot for your response!

[Hotel Security]

>I don’t really need it, and I’m maxed out on money, it’s just my curiosity, hahaha.

Oh, I understand, I had a run where I wanted to forge a copy of every item available so they all appear in the store for purchase so I used the Search a lot. Was fun for a while but I got burnt out on some of the more rare items and gave up.

Realistically, the only thing I'd ever recommend to actually forge for the game is the armor which you can't really find elsewhere. And I'd get the Smoke Gun/Zap Gun for beating Shakedown easily.