Will weapon damage be different and a point about torches

i just wanted to know whether there will be blunt damage and edge damage, and if so will the blunt damage do more against plate and such

also i heard somewhere torches were pretty heavy so they really should do some damage and im pretty sure that this will be implemeted but lighting torches needing a flint and steel or sticking it in a fire to light it…

also lanterns…

If you fougt in arena in current alpha. You know that you need to land quite a lot hits with longsword on the armored guy.
That is because swords are usless against plate armor (except halfswording).

This implies and it was actually confirmed by devs that there will be blunt weapons. And they will be much more effective against armored tagets than swords.

Though I would not call it “edge” and “blunt” damage. Damage is damage but weapons which afflict it have just different characteristics.