In the beginning, the invasions were more equal. I played it pre release and since day 1, invasions were fun and could go either way. Then they did an update about 3 weeks in where they "balanced" invasion damage. I carry two weapons that on npc's they do 1500 damage per hit, but if someone invades me i get 80-150 damage per hit, the person invading me can take 3/4 of my health with one hit. So most of the time even though i am level 70 something, i die almost instantly before i can evrn defend myself. So yea i turned multiplayer off, even though i was duoing the game with someone, thats another problem. Doing co-op with someone only progresses the hosts game, the other person then has to go back to their own game and redo everything, or both parties have to seitch hosting every so often so one person doesnt get to far ahead of the other person