Is there any way I can disable a certain faction from picking up certain weapons? Example: I am developing a zombie mod and don't want Player-controlled Zombies to be able to pick up guns.

Alternative: is it possible to disable a faction from being played in Quick Match by humans?

Another question: Is it possible to give a single faction more AI 'soldiers' - but only that faction? (even if let's say there were 4 factions total. The 200% enemy count gives it to all enemies, but I just want it sent to one.)

Why not make them spawn with a weapon that's a blank model file?

That way they have a weapon equipped but you won't see it.

I think you'll still be able to 'drop' that and pick up a gun

The AI shouldn't be dropping primaries to pick up other guns though? or am I wrong?

No, this is for players, I am asking how to prevent players from picking up weapons

Far as I can tell, there's no way to prevent players from picking up weapons unless you're using some script, which I have no experience with.

You can prevent player from playing one side if you run it in Invasion mode - but that's not part of Quick Match, so yea. Might also be possible via scripting.

You can up the count of a specific faction via the map code. But this is tedious, as it's on a map-by-map basis. You'd have to edit all the maps and stick them in a package separate from the mod for it to have a variety of maps.

Thanks! I think I can make this work, except maybe the weapon pickup

p.s. I don't need to copy maps. I just threw an init_match.xml into my mod's folder and it loads that every time the mod loads

you MIGHT be able to accomplish this by limiting the ranks in the "zombie" faction? for example, in the vanilla game you have to rank up 2-3 times before using certain weapons. Remove all zombie ranks except "private" or whatever you'd call it and you'd never be able to pick up guns, they'd be greyed out. But I don't know what part of the files dictates what rank you need to be to pick up weapons yet, just started modding this game like a day ago.