Definitely impossible to change difficulty of an underway campaign?
I've been searching and I haven't found much of an encouraging answer but I'm desperate enough to ask here, just in case one's out there somewhere. Here's the situation: I've a relatively old 'vanilla' IL2 dynamic campaign on the go in which I've flown around a hundred missions (Sturmovik campaign, beginning in L'vov). The difficulty was set to realistic. All was well and good until I installed the latest patches (going from 4.08m-4.101m).
It's working fine, but they introduced some new difficulty settings which my pre-existing campaign had no setting for, things such as Reliability (whatever that is), G-force limitations, and a bunch of stuff relating to the map icons and navigation. The result is that now, when I load my campaign, I can see my plane's icon on the map, whereas before I had no map icons and had to navigate for myself. It may sound trivial, but it kills a fair part of the fun when there's no danger of getting lost and I don't have to do any navigation. It's not like I can just ignore it either since it's obvious where I am as soon as I bring the map up.
I've looked at all relevant files which could be fiddled with that I can think of. Nothing in the DGen or Missions\Campaign... folders relating to my campaign (or any other for that matter) have anything to set the difficulty (not the .dat files or the .ini files). As for my user folder, the settings.ini has a difficulty setting but that only applies to new missions and campaigns and doesn't affect the old. The most likely candidate seems to be the campaigns.ini file in my pilot's User folder, but that's nothing but gibberish. All it has are several lines of this kind of stuff: ꫰鴎ᫍ㢌镆뢬䆙ᔎ. I'd say it could be Cyrillic since that's what non-Latin character sets can look like if you don't have the font, but if it is then there are no numbers there (except a couple of 4s on their own), and the difficulty setting is a numerical value judging by the user settings.ini.
Has anyone managed this? I don't want to start a new Sturmovik campaign after so long.
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