Originally Posted by Abits
New companions in act 2 would be an awesome suprise since right now I'm convinced we won't get any.

Please correct me if I'm wrong - but for some reason, I think that Larian said that our party will be locked after act1? And in case some of our party members leave our group - we could replace them with mercenary.
But I'm not 100% sure about it and I can be completely wrong.