Mistfall Hunter Players Are Begging For This One Addition, And The Devs Just Won’t Do It
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Mistfall Hunter has been out for almost three weeks now, with the extraction brawler launching on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S on July 29. Dating back to even its open beta, the community has been begging developer Bellring Games for one addition: a dedicated mode for teams of two.
All over the game's official subreddit are posts from players asking that the developer include a duos mode.
"I need duos," Redditor broman510 titled an August 11 post. "In this, duos vs trios seems so hard and almost impossible; most of the time [one] of us is getting jumped by 2 and poked down by one."
"We need duos," Matta114 posted on August 17. "I don't care if the game is balanced for trios. I'll take unbalanced duos over trios with some random 3rd dude that runs the opposite direction every game."
"Upvote for duos," wrote PuwudleRS in an August 8 post that generated 1.3 upvotes. "I am addicted to this game, but I CRAVE the duo experience this game has to offer. Please devs, I am begging with my life."
The common complaint from the community is that duos would allow friends more flexibility when playing together. Not everyone has two other people online at the same time and willing to play the same game. You can queue into trios, but you and your bestie will get a random third fill-in--and randoms are oftentimes unpredictable and unreliable.
"Between the lack of comms from randoms, to people flaking out in fights and leaving their teammates die, to the ******* stealing all the loot (especially if the third is a melee and they can grab the bodies first)," Redditor kennypeace wrote on August 5. "The amount of times I've died, watching someone loot a dead player, whilst their teammates are fighting for their lives, is unbearable. [Three] stack is miserable at the moment, and I'm not even gonna mention the bloody lag (in Europe, hope you Americans are faring better over there) that may be helped by lowering the team count."
Unfortunately, the community's call may never be answered. Back in March 2026, developer Bellring Games took to X to share that it currently has "no plans" to add a duos mode to Mistfall Hunter. Even though the studio knows it's a "highly requested feature," duos would impact the game's matchmaking efficiency.
"More importantly, it would exacerbate balance issues," Bellring Games said. "It is difficult to ensure balanced gameplay for duos while also maintaining balance for trio and solo modes. For now, we are prioritizing other areas of development."
Redditors have called for users to "make a suggestion for duo queues" in the Discord, and now the support-hub server is rife with users begging the team to add duos. Aside from the official statement posted on X, Bellring Games hasn't said anything else regarding a duos mode. It appears this tug-of-war will probably go on for a while.
At least Mistfall Hunter is a cool experience, a fascinating amalgam of souls-like combat and extraction shooter elements to create something of an extraction brawler. It's made me a believer in extraction games as a whole.
Mistfall Hunter has been out for almost three weeks now, with the extraction brawler launching on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S on July 29. Dating back to even its open beta, the community has been begging developer Bellring Games for one addition: a dedicated mode for teams of two.
All over the game’s official subreddit are posts from players asking that the developer include a duos mode.
“I need duos,” Redditor broman510 titled an August 11 post. “In this, duos vs trios seems so hard and almost impossible; most of the time [one] of us is getting jumped by 2 and poked down by one.”
“We need duos,” Matta114 posted on August 17. “I don’t care if the game is balanced for trios. I’ll take unbalanced duos over trios with some random 3rd dude that runs the opposite direction every game.”
“Upvote for duos,” wrote PuwudleRS in an August 8 post that generated 1.3 upvotes. “I am addicted to this game, but I CRAVE the duo experience this game has to offer. Please devs, I am begging with my life.”
The common complaint from the community is that duos would allow friends more flexibility when playing together. Not everyone has two other people online at the same time and willing to play the same game. You can queue into trios, but you and your bestie will get a random third fill-in–and randoms are oftentimes unpredictable and unreliable.
“Between the lack of comms from randoms, to people flaking out in fights and leaving their teammates die, to the ******* stealing all the loot (especially if the third is a melee and they can grab the bodies first),” Redditor kennypeace wrote on August 5. “The amount of times I’ve died, watching someone loot a dead player, whilst their teammates are fighting for their lives, is unbearable. [Three] stack is miserable at the moment, and I’m not even gonna mention the bloody lag (in Europe, hope you Americans are faring better over there) that may be helped by lowering the team count.”
Unfortunately, the community’s call may never be answered. Back in March 2026, developer Bellring Games took to X to share that it currently has “no plans” to add a duos mode to Mistfall Hunter. Even though the studio knows it’s a “highly requested feature,” duos would impact the game’s matchmaking efficiency.
“More importantly, it would exacerbate balance issues,” Bellring Games said. “It is difficult to ensure balanced gameplay for duos while also maintaining balance for trio and solo modes. For now, we are prioritizing other areas of development.”
Redditors have called for users to “make a suggestion for duo queues” in the Discord, and now the support-hub server is rife with users begging the team to add duos. Aside from the official statement posted on X, Bellring Games hasn’t said anything else regarding a duos mode. It appears this tug-of-war will probably go on for a while.
At least Mistfall Hunter is a cool experience, a fascinating amalgam of souls-like combat and extraction shooter elements to create something of an extraction brawler. It’s made me a believer in extraction games as a whole.
