u/Prestigious_Issue777

So I just finished my first playthrough with Ryan and I wanna ask. What happened to the other slayers in the character selection screen? Are they dead or just went their seperate ways?

In Dead Island 1, it's revealed that while you play on your own, the story is written wherein all the Heroes (Sam B, Purna, Xian Mei, and Logan) all move together at once. Hence they're all featured together in the cutscenes.

Meanwhile, in Riptide, if you're playing Solo, the other characters hang back and can be interacted with at the base. They basically choose to stay behind and protect the non-immune.