The mist is TOOOOOOO extreme. Its downright silly. The mistlight only showing up a literal sword swing distance is a joke and as you just said forget it if its a corpse run. Mistlight should light up to FULL view distance. Make it dark if you must but until this is changed I am ignoring the game. Yes i am playing solo and its likely balanced for 10 players........... but if I can have near to no problems like the OP said, say for my own screw ups, all the way upto Mistlands but then its just WAYYYY out of balance and too unforgiving.