Broken co-op vs AI?

[Juanlo]

Yesterday I was supercruise-surfing in Sol system. I was in a Viper, my brother was in a Hauler, so I was escorting him. Suddenly he was interdicted by an NPC pirate ship, so I followed his wake, exited supercruise and I found him... and he was alone.

He was alone, maneuvering like mad while his hull was taking damage. I coulnd't see neither the attacker nor the laser shots, so I couldn't do anything to help. He could see me and of course he could see his attacker, but I couldn't see the NPC.

So the question... was it an temporary problem, should not happen again, or simply the AI generated locally by someone's computer is invisible to anyone else? We were in open play by the way.

 

[zynaps]

This is probably what happened: The AI was controlled by a 3rd party, and when you entered the instance your computer managed to establish a P2P connection with your brother, but failed to establish a connection with the 3rd party. Hence you could see him but not the NPC.

 

[LawHunter]

This happened to me too. Saw my mate taking damage but I saw no bad guy.

Many versions ago this was, hope its fixed for the wings update.

 

[Jukelo]

It's a very common bug with interdictions. Nothing you can do about it really, wait for Wings to come out and see if they've finally fixed it, seeing how 1.2 should focus on co-op and multiplayer functionalities.
On the flip side, multi-party PVP interdictions seem to work fine.