User blog comment:Zumato/Dragon's Dogma gets a Sequel!/@comment-5143353-20120627094749/@comment-5097251-20120628132512

Dark Souls solved this problem easily enough by making NPCs ghostly apparitions invaders couldn't touch - didn't stop clever invaders tricking hosts into attacking them, of course. Likely any sort of co-op in a game like DD would be done in dungeons and enclosed spaces away from the open-world aspect, besides.

Hell, Pawns already smash the boxes you try to stand on. What's the danger of real intelligence next to trollish AI like that?