[Austinbots]

When I play L4D2 and someone decides to use melee what happens -every- time is they:
1) loose health way faster than non melee users
2) consume team resources
3) end up being a major liability
4) waste my time having to make up for their sub par game play

To avoid all of these hassles on my server I just remove all melee "weapons" from my server.

This is a simple plug in.
Once loaded all melee and possible melee spawns are removed from all maps!

If you wanted to remove other items or possible spawns it would be as simple as adding them to the list adjusting the number of items and recompiling.

I hope this can help someone else.

[cravenge]

This can also be done simply by filtering the "weapon_%s", "weapon_%s_spawn", and "weapon_melee_spawn" classnames in Stripper. (%s for the name of the weapon)

[Austinbots]

Whould this be the stripper rules?

remove:
{
"classname" "weapon_melee"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_chainsaw"
}

{
"classname" "weapon_cricket_bat"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_crowbar"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_baseball_bat"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_electric_guitar"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_fireaxe"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_katana"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_tonfa"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_golfclub"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_machete"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_frying_pan"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_riotshield"
}

{
"classname" "weapon_melee_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_chainsaw_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_cricket_bat_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_crowbar_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_baseball_bat_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_electric_guitar_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_fireaxe_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_katana_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_tonfa_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_golfclub_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_machete_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_frying_pan_spawn"
}
{
"classname" "weapon_riotshield_spawn"
}

[cravenge]

Originally Posted by Austinbots remove:

There's no such function like that. Replace it with filter:

[Lux]

Don't use stripper because if it breaks we don't know when it could be fixed again

This will work fine

But i would use on entity created because i played a custommap with a melee weapon dispenser, if you want it to be perfect

[Spirit_12]

Originally Posted by Ludastar Don't use stripper because if it breaks we don't know when it could be fixed again

Stop spreading lies. Down time on stripper has been 1 day at max. It is one of the most frequently maintained extensions on this forum.

The reasoning behind this plugin sounds really vague. Melee players becoming a liability? Don't know where you got that assumption.

[Lux]

No i mean why use an extension there is more points of failure, when a plugin will do it just fine.

i mean if your gunna use stripper for other stuff then use stripper, but if your just removing melee weapons this would be fine.

[Spirit_12]

Originally Posted by Ludastar No i mean why use an extension there is more points of failure, when a plugin will do it just fine.

That's the only legit reason to use this plugin. I'm still not in favor of this plugin idea, because some maps need melee weapons to break stuff to proceed.

[MasterMind420]

weapon_melee should cover all melee weapons, except the chainsaw...implicating any others isn't necessary...and yah this plugin does seem alittle pointless, I can see major advantages to using melee weapons while swarmed by zombies, instead of removing them altogether, just kick players that are liabilities to the team...