UE2 - UT2kX Changing team sizes via Mutator. Again.

First off, I've searched the Wiki, the web, and these forums, and I've not found a definitive answer...


Anyway. I would like to create a mutator that simply changes team sizes. At the moment, I'm extending Mutator, and I've tried overriding StartingMatch, Pre- and PostBeginPlay, and SetInitialState amongst others. I've tried writing to TeamGame.Teams[].size and TeamGame.EnemyRoster.size, and DesiredTeamSize for both.

Nothing works. The team sizes remain at whatever the user has set in Game Rules.

So, can anyone suggest how I might do this? Is there a tutorial that covers this? Initially, I'd like to simply set Team0 size to x, and Team1 size to y. Once I get that working, I'll move on.

Any clues, anyone?

Um... I'm afraid I'm going to need another nudge.

Following the trail from the config GUI, it seems I want to override DeathMatch's PostBeginPlay(), but then I'd be creating a new gametype, and I don't want to do that.

Am I even heading in the right direction? Should I be extending a GameInfo or TeamInfo? Or should I just be poking the fields from a subclass of Mutator?

Aha. Some progress. I dug into BotMixer and found a method that appears to work :

I set a 1.5 timer in PostBeginPlay(), and inside Timer(), I write to InitialBots in DeathMatch, and Teams[] in TeamGame. However, this doesn't strike me as a very clean way to do it. Is this the recommended method?



Bonus question!

From experimentation, for a single-player game, the player is in Team[0]. Is this always true? If not, how can I find which team the player is in? TeamGame.StandalonePlayer.GetTeamNum() appears to return the other team index.