What have happened to previous characters?

[KEK]

I'm talking about DD1 characters, Arbalest, Abomination, Musket-girl and etc? Why am I also limited to have 1 character in party exclusively?

[fistleaf]

Because this is DD2, not DD1+.

[Gal Kraft]

Originally posted by Demopan?:

? Why am I also limited to have 1 character in party exclusively?

This is the one thing I missed from the first game. I soon got over it, but still.
Once mod support hits DD2 I'm sure someone will go that route. If so that may well be the first Darkest Dungeon mod I try, ever.

Meanwhile, there's plenty to chew on with party composition.

[MadMan]

For now, we assume that missing characters are either missing in the darkness of the world or they are dead. Also limit to one hero is simply a game mechanic - will probably change with workshop release or devs will change it themselves.

[SkyBars]

I can tell you what happened to Antiquarian . He became a44hole

[Sultryhag]

I killed the antiquarian it was one of my achievements in DD2.

[Dusk the Umbreon]

Musketeer, Arbalest, and Houndmaster are all MIA at the moment. We have no idea where they are. Could be they're dead or simply not in the area. Could be that they're still lost in the void and will show up later (i.e. DLC heroes). Musketeer might end up axed entirely though given that she was almost entirely identical to Arbalest (with the ONLY difference being the crystaline trinkets).

It's possible that Thing In the Corner (one of the studies) is the Abomination given the general body shape and the Locket you can get from it, but it's currently unknown.

And, well, obviously the Antiquarian turned evil.

As to why you can only have one of each....the lore reason is most likely that time isn't as fragmented here as it was on the Estate. You don't have both the Comet and the Heart both abusing the flow of time, so it's not loopy and weak enough to allow for there to be alternate universe versions of each hero. Especially now that it's more explicitly "Each hero is the same hero every time you call them up"

The mechanical reason is probably just that the devs didn't want as much of the bonkers levels of cheese you could get in the old version by having two HWM spamming PBS or four hellions spamming run through. Or, god forbid, four *vestals* now that she's actually good at doing things that aren't spamming heals. A four vestal comp could regen obscene amounts of health every single turn, have constant buffs, be decently tanky, nuke stress easily, debuff like crazy, and still deal lots of damage.

[OpalGotMyHeart]

as far as why you cant have multitude of the same character, my guess is its more thematic, in the first game characters were meant to be viewed as disposable, and over all insignificant as individuals; they were tools for you to meet your ends in other words, as such having 2 or even 4 of the same person was perfectly fitting, they are not people, they simply cogs in your wheels. This game focuses alot more on these characters as actual people, giving them relatationships, personalities, and histories that make them important as individuals, as such i think it would be an ill fit for the game to have you use multiple of the same person like they did in the first game.

as far as whats happened to the characters, we can see hints as to most of the characters locales and as for others we can at best speculate. Ive seen what looks like the abominations locket in some of the inns so my guess is he has reclused himself in these havens. The musketeer in dd1 was obsessed with proving herself as both a combatant and a marksman, as such i imagine there might be hints to where she is somewhere in the sluice (which admittedly i havent explored much of), and the arbelest was part of the military, as such its likely that she fell during the military occupation of the forests, and if she is alive, she is likely far from sane, probably joining the ranks of the various crossbowmen that stand waiting (which have suspiciously similar animations to the arbelest in the first game)