In Dos2 MP, for example, a character could be fighting, others could be out of combat; stealing from the cowering shopkeeper. and another could be sneaking trying to flank the enemies; staying out of sight.
Just imagine that you are going to run and shove the voidwoken with your fighter to throw it over a cliff, at the same time your sneaky flanker is going to shoot an explosive arrow to the voidwoken. If we cannot see that the other is going to do something, the usual outcome is that you shove the goblin out of the harm´s way and you just got hit with the explosive arrow instead.
And the shopkeeper also caught your thief and call the guards because Murphy is a b...
Fun times.
