Heavy Sky campaign: mission planner only shows enemies, no friendlies

[PeaceSells]

I'm trying the Heavy Sky campaign for the first time and so far I've played around 3 or 4 missions. One thing I noticed in these missions is that in the planner screen you don't see the allied flights, but you see detailed info of the enemy flights, with all their wayponts, etc.

 

For example, there's this mission where you have to protect allied strike aircraft from interception by F-14's. In the mission planner there was no allied aircraft, but all the waypoints of the enemies. I then took off, flew my route and, just before intercepting the F-14's, I had the pleasure of seeing them being annihilated by friendlies. Later on Tacview I saw that it was an allied flight of MiG-29's that I had no clues was operating in the area. I think it would be cooler if I didn't know the exact number, type and waypoints of the enemy aircraft, but knew the friendly's instead...

[feefifofum]

I don't mean to insult you, and I haven't looked at every mission, but...you know you're on REDFOR in Heavy Sky right?

 

I do see information on enemy flights, but I also see all the friendlies in the couple missions I just looked at.

[PeaceSells]

Don't worry, no insult taken. Please take a look at the screen shot from mission planner of mission 5, the last mission I flew.

 

The only red aircraft shown is my own (doesn't count). When I flew it, there was least: one flight of red MiG-29A, one flight of red MiG-29S and one red AWACS. None of them shows in the mission planner, but the blue flights do.

 

It's been like this for every mission up to mission 5. Can't say about the rest of the missions, cause I didn't fly them yet...

[feefifofum]

EDIT:

I just re-checked mission 1 in the mission planner and confirmed I was able to see all aircraft both sides.

 

However, it seems I had been looking at Sea Dragon before; you are correct that in other missions in Heavy Sky, friendly aircraft are hidden.

 

Fortunately, these missions are not considered protected content so you should simply be able to open them, open the unit list, select the "red" coalition, and unhide all friendly units by double clicking on them. You can also hide OPFOR in the by selecting blue and following the same steps. See below:

 

Once things are configured as you like, hit file -> save and you're all set. Because you aren't changing filesize or anything else the IC checks for these missions should not be overwritten in an update unless there is an official patch to them. Alternately, you can save as and make a separate copy containing your changes.

Edited April 14, 2018 by feefifofum

[PeaceSells]

That worked, thanks for the screen shots and explanation!