First, I want to say thanks to War Horse for developing this game! I know this game will one of my top games. Also, hi everyone.
If you haven’t read the title yet, I want to suggest capes in the game! Capes will represent how prestige your ranking is in the kingdom. Also, capes look cool 
Just imagine wearing a cape and slashing through hundreds of men LIKE A BOSS.
^ THIS! capes would be absolutely awesome!
I also think capes would be cool. But more in a way of travelclothes. Like something t keep you warmer.
If there were capes in combat, I’d love to see them used realistically. Meaning you have to throw them off before fighting, otherwise they limit your movements and can be used by your enemys.
And how cool would that look, throwing off a hooded cape while pulling your weapon in one smoot movement.
I would also like to support capes and cloaks. I essentially want to cosplay as Ned Stark in this game and he was rarely without his cloak.
Totally agree with you. Capes are “cool”, but totally useless during a fight. I would just like to add that even during sneaking parts cape would hamper with your sight but also HEARING. Just try it with usual cape and you will notice a difference. But capes must be in game 
Edit. Just realized that I’m talking about hooded capes.
Nobles used capes as a fashionable part of clothing and lower classes used it as a protection against cold. Good cape is thick and therefore very heavy and unsuitable for many things.
Some capes, yes! Not like how they are in most video games. They should be used as travel clothing during the nighttime and whatnot. More like cloaks and less like Capes.
Hi all.
Indeed, I feel the need to correct you on a point. Capes in combat are anything but useless: they were used as a way to protect the unarmed arm since the Roman Empire era (although it was used a lot in a civilian context, and far less in a militar one). You can refer, for instance, to this article, written by one of the instructors of Sala d’Arme Achille Marozzo, an Italian HEMA association, which I’m member of.
So, again, I think that the point should not be whether they were useless or not, but whether the devs could/want implement them!
A lot of games seem to have a problem with the physics of a moving cape. One problem I’ve always had with the Elder Scroll’s games was how when someone made a cape it had to either be static or flowed with the legs, both of which looked terrible. I just want to see some awesome cape physics.
Yes, I know little about this. You can use cloak to conceal your blade before strike or throw it against your opponent eyes or even protect your unarmed hand. It’s rather advanced technique and I thought that it is tied to Spanish fencing. I was talking especially about wearing hoods or fighting with cloak on your back. 
Active using of cloak is something different. But great point.
When I hear cape I think batman or superman, but cloak, that says RPG to me!
Hello,
there are disciplines for sword and cape fight. but I do not know how widely they were used in the beggining of 15th century in the middle of the Europe, where this game is set.
As a common clothes in my opinion capes/cloaks should be definitely included in the game.
Absolutely love this idea! Even if it might be hard to fight with a cape, it would be a good idea for the Bard class, as they mentioned that the fashion in which the main character dresses also affects their social standing and influence.
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Capes could defenitly be inplanted, it would play in on the realistic factor wich the game as I understand is heading for.
However, it is vety important that it is executed nicley since cape physics can be hard to make look good.
Im sure some bandits and others used capes and it would defenitly be nice to see some in game atleast at hunters and soo on.
- Auyo
It would be awsome. But i asked my GPU and it wasn’t very happy, dunno why 
As you can read in the article I linked above, proper treatisation (is it even a word? :P) of sword and cape (or dagger and cape, as well) techniques can be found only from the beginning of 16th century, at least in Italy; however the use of a cape/cloak as a defensive weapon is mentioned from Roman Empire age, so I guess that using a cape in this “simple” way (i.e. rolling it around the arm to avoid cuts) isn’t so wrong even in 1403 in middle Europe; a different thing may be the use of advanced techniques (for example, spinning the cape to parry or disarm the opponent, throwing it in the face of the opponent to blind him, etc.): I’m not so sure such sort of techniques were so widespread (or even known) that time.
This. According to Wikipedia Giacomo di Grassi published a book in Italy at 1570, which included a section surrounding the combat using combination of rapier and cloak. It wouldn’t be far fetched for this technique to be present in Deliverance, or in some of the sequels as far as I can tell.
How about we say “let there be appropriate period specific clothing” and call it a day?
Sounds awesome, since this will include some form of cloaks and capes.
Before him (I’m studying Di Grassi’s sword and round shield this year :P), Antonio Manciolino (1531), Achille Marozzo (1536) and Francesco di Sandro Altoni (1540) for sure wrote about sword and cape in his Opera Nova (1531). But again, in Italy there are no academic sources prior 1500.
Just seen the video update on character customisation and capes didn’t make an appearance I don’t think. Still time though!
