Difficulty-Based Character Class?

[Gifty]

Howdy! Was tinkering around with the skill level definition via MAPINFO, and I was wondering if there was a way to define/replace the player class based on the difficulty level one chooses. In this case, I'd like the Nightmare difficulty to entail a separate set of weapons, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to switch the player class via difficulty selection, rather than the traditional "player class select" menu. Any ideas?

[Matt]

One possibility is to have the playerclass check and replace inventory items in its PostBeginPlay() state, something like

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class NotVerySuperMan:DoomPlayer
{
    default
    {
        player.displayname "Super Shotgun Guy";
        player.startitem "SuperShotgun";
        player.startitem "Fist";
        player.startitem "Shell", 20;
    }
    override void PostBeginPlay()
    {
        super.PostBeginPlay();
        if(skill>=3)
        {
            A_TakeInventory("SuperShotgun");
            A_GiveInventory("Shotgun");
            //might need another line to set # of shells
        }
    }
}