Mage Hand breaks the game

[Potatoflesh]

I found a ton of bugs/janky stuff just in the first few hours by using Mage Hand. Strap in, because there's a lot:

Combat does not start when you use Mage Hand to Shove, so you can use it to Shove enemies around indefinitely into fire and stuff.

However, combat WILL start if your Mage Hand disappears while it is near an enemy that is already in combat for some reason.

Mage Hand can sometimes Shove enemies through the floor into lower levels. This happened pretty consistently with the elf Quelanna in the fight with the adventurers on top of the chapel, I Shoved her once down the staircase she was standing on and twice down the other staircase and she fell right through the floor. Because there's no flee button this ended up making combat indefinite.

I also managed to crash the game a couple times with Mage Hand, again in the fight with the adventurers atop the chapel. I sent it out to Shove Warryn into my range and it crashed. I reloaded the fight and Warryn got into about the same position so I went to Shove again and it crashed. Both times he was standing on the slope just outside of the courtyard on the side that he starts on.

Mage Hand in general is probably one of the best/most broken cantrips in the game. You can use it to scout out areas and it can manipulate environmental objects however you want at any distance, and enemies will not aggro to it. If you're playing a wizard or a gith use it and see what you can do!

[Caridor]

This is exactly the kind of thing that early access is for.

[Instigator]

100% report this through the proper channels. Mage Hand is amazing, and it deserves to get polished up.

[dolby]

thx for testing! i had that shove long combat as well, kinda meh indeed.. so yeah, they are a few bugs some are bad. But at least this ones can be fixed by reloading. some others can't be fixed with reloading, still, good job for free tester you did good, here a cookie for you :)))

[Potatoflesh]

Yeah, reported all this and a bunch of other stuff I found. Although knowing Larian a lot of the jank may very well be intentional.

[DiceWrangler]

I wish Mage Hand did what it is most useful for in D&D 5e like:

* Opening/Closing doors
* Triggering traps
* Lighting candles/torches
* Carrying candles/torches
* Pulling levers, turning dials, manipulating simple controls, etc.