I think they are in public version since chapter 38 update and were in build 2.52 during ch37 update but I don't think that build was ever public.Maybe not if they started with an older version of the game. I started on 2.34 and only updated recently, and there seems to have been a lot of QoL changes since then. I might check out the beginning again to see if other things have changed, but I definitely didn't have any indicators for where to go/talk/etc.