@Conkerballs just keep on with the host menu tutorial , he shows how to hide the main and just show the host, if i can do it then so can you
managed to finish the host section, atm it doesn’t work, think i’ve set a few of the textblock vars wrong, when i last checked there was a few images missing and a few more where i had to goto the blog to find ones that was big enough to see correctly, i think the macro for “set_max_players” isn’t show any where but thats might be a copy of the set_max_score. might i suggest you add the steam stuff for the defaultengine.ini file in there. i think my issues might also be typo’s in the ini file as my gamemode+map won’t switch even though i’ve got the buttons the wrong way round :o , i’m hoping that i can port this to other projects as theres other options i need to add the hostgame (team/factions) but i think this tutorials has given my some fantasic in sights on how to do this. hope to have a bit more time so i can continue.
can’t say thankyou enough 
edit: oh boy talk about thick, yes i had a typo or 2 , then i had wired a node(byte > ) in the up_button the wrong way round 
, so now ready to sort the missing sting in option message (either the score limit or timelimit)