Mistfall Hunter's Withered Knight gets buffed one day after launch

Bellring Games launched Mistfall Hunter on July 29, and by the very next day had already pushed an update targeting one of the game's strongest classes. The July 30 patch focuses on the Withered Knight — the newest class in the roster — and buffs its polearm and shield weapon set across several moves.

The specific changes include slightly reduced energy drain on the Charged Dash's shield-raising phase, improved turning on a Tier-1 Charged Dash, increased damage on the 1st and 3rd thrust hits of the Basic Attack, a higher damage multiplier on Spear Barrage, reduced energy cost and cooldown on Rainbow Piercer, and reduced energy cost on Block. During the beta, the Withered Knight only had a greatsword — the polearm and shield loadout is new to the full release, so these tweaks are essentially day-one tuning on a brand-new weapon set. The class already hits hard thanks to the Wither skill, which builds up on enemies and then explodes for burst damage, combined with dash attacks and a grappling hook that make it difficult to escape once it locks onto a target.

Mistfall Hunter is an extraction brawler — a melee-focused take on the extraction genre that's been dominated by shooters like Escape from Tarkov and Hunt: Showdown. Bellring Games is positioning it as something different: close-quarters, class-based, with a fantasy setting. The game launched with six classes, and the Withered Knight sits in B-tier on GameSpot's rankings despite its aggressive toolkit, suggesting the buffs are a direct response to early player feedback about the polearm set underperforming relative to the greatsword.

Beyond the class balance, the patch fixes a solid list of bugs — a visual range mismatch on the Sorcerer's Flameblade, console reconnection failures, a Soul of Return being incorrectly consumed near Soul Trees, controller issues in the Auction House and Loadout screen, and a crash on the Seasonal Leaderboard. At the time of writing, nearly 30,000 concurrent players were on Steam, a strong signal that there's genuine appetite for extraction games that don't revolve around guns.