Lock-On & Aim Assist

Mistfall Hunter has no lock-on, no target lock and no key to bind for one. Combat is free-aim: you point the camera, and your attack goes where the crosshair is. Nothing snaps a target into place and holds it there the way a Souls-like would.

This is a deliberate design choice rather than a missing feature, and it shapes everything about how fights play. Because the camera is your targeting system, camera control is a combat skill — circling a monster, keeping a group in frame, and holding an angle on a moving player all do the job that a lock-on would otherwise do for you.

In place of a hard lock, the game runs an aim-assist layer on your character. It never takes a shot for you and never holds a target — it nudges and slows your aim as it passes over one. Two separate mechanisms do the work, and the game exposes both:

Snapping

Pulls your aim toward a target as you sweep across it. Split into an angle-snap component (how far it bends your aim) and an input-snap component (how much your own stick or mouse input is bent).

Damping

Slows your aim down while it is on or near a target, so you overshoot less. Has its own strength, plus a range and a distance that define the zone it applies in.

Double-flick

An optional toggle. When it's on, flicking the stick twice in quick succession is treated differently from a single sweep, so a deliberate re-target isn't fought by the assist.

Both snapping and damping are bounded by a range and a distance — aim assist only does anything inside that envelope. A target beyond it gets no help at all, which is why long-range shots feel entirely manual.

The Aim Assist Strength option in Controls looks like one slider, but it writes seven values at once: angle-snap strength, input-snap strength, snap range, snap distance, damping strength, damping range and damping distance. Moving it moves all seven together.

This is the part most guides miss. The game applies a different aim-assist configuration depending on whether you are holding a ranged or a melee weapon, and it re-applies it the moment you swap.

So a Conduit caster and a Bow user share aim-assist behaviour, while a Mace user — despite Conduit and Mace otherwise sharing subclass-style rules — gets the melee profile. If aim assist feels inconsistent to you across a loadout, this is why.

A small number of skills do something closer to locking on, but it is per-skill and time-limited rather than a mode you enter:

Stitch and Thread

Opens a 2-second wind-up during which it soft-locks enemies near your crosshair, up to three at once. It prioritises lower-Health players, and a higher-priority target entering the aiming area replaces a lower-priority one. On release the javelin pierces the locked targets in order, closest to farthest.

Reverent Seer ally-targeting skills

All of the Seer's ally-targeting skills carry their own aim assist, and there is a dedicated input to target yourself instead of a teammate.

Because there is no lock-on to fall back on, the camera settings matter more than usual — and the game keeps mouse and stick options apart rather than sharing one sensitivity:

• Camera sensitivity has independent mouse and stick values.
• Camera smoothing is separate for mouse and gamepad, and the stick additionally has its own response curve.
• The right stick has its own horizontal and vertical sensitivity, plus a dead zone and an outer threshold.
• Y-axis inversion, cursor speed and cursor damping are all exposed.
• Gamepad bindings are fully rebindable as their own set, independent of keyboard bindings, and the two sticks can be swapped.