I know it's been 7 years since this topic was posted, but I hope someone sees it and maybe has a solution. Is there any way to change the game's difficulty after starting it? I started in Strategist Mode and it was fine until about halfway through the game, but now I can't progress and I can't go back to the standard difficulty.

Is there any way to change it even with the strategist lock? Maybe by unpacking the game save and changing something manually, or something like that.