The updated weapon system is yet another feature the developers are planning to give the player for control over large groups, including the ability to switch between weapons on the fly (currently mapped to the D-pad) and more depth added to each alternate weapon. Granted, I'm taking their word for it on the latter, since I haven't had a chance to play the game myself and I've only watched the developers mess around with one new weapon, but it's a nice thing to hear them say.

The idea is that the Cestus (those big metal lion head gauntlets seen in the December trailer) will have as many combos as your default blades, with many of them mapped to the same button presses, making it easy to start a combo with one weapon and finish with another.