For those who want bots to use loadout weapons:, Ain't that cool? Options

[Sjru]

I've found this little SM plugin (link, follow instructions on that page) that lets you to force other players to use a certain weapon. This means that it can also be used with bots, which I tested and works.
It needs Sourcemod, if you don't have it, you can find it here.

NOTICE: VISIBLE WEAPONS IS NOT LONGER POSSIBLE

To use, simply read how to use it on the plugin page.

Of course, there are some bugs related to this:

* Loadout weapons textures will fail to load on bots, the result will be that bots will be holding an invisible weapon. (I suppose that is fixable with scripts) but they will be holding the loadout weapons and it's effects Solution below.
* Some weapons cause crashes, most notably those weapons that would require extra coding for the bots to use them (Jarate, sandman, DirectHit, all demoman melee unlockables,etc)

The following weapons have been tested by me, and don't cause related crashes: Brass Beast, Iron curtain, SidneySleeper, Backscratcher, Lock'nload ,Valve scattergun, backburner, Blutsauger, Frontier Justice, Amputator, Candy cane, Jag, KGB, Golden Wrench, Tribalman's shiv, Equalizer, Powerjack, Southern hospitality.

Remember, of the above, bots WILL NOT normally use those weapons unless forced (e: a command). This means that the heavy that spawn with Natascha or Iron Curtain WILL use it until he loses all ammo and is forced to switch to shotgun, after then, even after he collects more ammo he will still battle with the shotgun until the heavy dies. This behaviour is similar to all other weapons, and should be addressed if attempting normal gameplay.
Other notes:
Medic Blutsauger: Locks medics on healing, since they will not switch to the blutsauger and they don't melee.
Engineers melee's (Golden wrench, jag, southern hospitality): They will spawn with those weapons if you do the command, but somehow they will "lose" it after a while.
Soldier's equalizer: Soldier don't move faster when at low health, despite it, they're normally deathly at full health, since bots have abnormal melee critical chance.

Video of the plugin with the bots



I do really think that somebody that knows scripting should address those issues. (Possible, really).

[Sjru]

Is there any way to make the bots wear hats? (Specifically without sourcemod or any of that other difficult shit)

There was a plugin, from Damizean, that let you force players to use some hats. It used to work, until he disabled the option to use Valve hat (So just you can use custom ones), however as of now neither of that works since Valve disabled the visibility of custom things. There are workarounds though, but still it's a hassle and it's problematic.