Thanks for the suggestion but this doesn’t work. You can only revive them. It looks like my only option is to restart and waste 35 hours of gameplay or wait for a patch. Stuck with a full custom team with only 2 of us still playing. Really want the standard npcs to fill the 2 slots.
Blows my mind that you can’t do this yet you can in dos2. There should at least be a warning because if we’d known up front we probably wouldn’t have started it with a full team of 4.