UPDATE 1.9 - Added two harder difficulty levels to the Ghoul Frenzy Mode event, and added a Goal to complete the event as well. Also cleaned up a few small problem bits of scripting that could cause issues with Ghoul Frenzy if running it more than once.

Improved the Tracker Street Samurai Catalog vendor by allowing the player to see store screens for only a specific category of his goods, including each grade of cyberware by itself, each type of weapon, and each tier of armored outfits.

Added giant bugs as another type of enemy that can be summoned in player-chosen numbers. All four types of insects are included, though they have been modified to no longer spawn an invincible pure spirit when they die. The four types of bugs are generated randomly in mixed groups of the size selected by the player. All four bug varieties have the same four difficulty level versions as the rest of the enemies in the Arena.

Also added the ability to summon random groups of enemies including all of the summoned foes thus far. So now the player can fight 10, 20, or 40 randomly-selected opponents including ninjas, Tir Ghosts, and all four types of bugs, again in any one of the four difficulty levels.

UPDATE 1.82 - Added Tir Tairngire Ghosts, in four different difficulty levels, as an additional option for enemies to summon in whatever numbers you choose. These can be summoned alongside the ninjas previously available. However, a hard cap of 40 summoned enemies has been implemented, as the game performs poorly when trying to spawn or respawn more than that.

UPDATE 1.8 - Big update with some important changes to the functionality of the mod. The Training Room and Testing Arena are no longer two separate scenes, but both reside within one scene now, allowing the player to very quickly teleport back and forth between them with no loading screen. Saving is still possible at any time by left-clicking on the character (out of combat only).

Updated the Street Samurai Catalog vendor in the Training Room to the brand new, latest version of Tracker's data files (v3g). This means that alpha, beta, and delta grade cyberware is available, plus all of his recent fixes, as well as the large assortment of tiered armor in all of the available player outfit styles.

The Arena now has four selectable difficulty levels. It defaults to Easy now, with all of the encounters within being quite a bit weaker than they were previously, suitable for low-Karma characters. By talking to the Arena Master, the difficulty can be set to Moderate, Hard, or Insane, with a very large difference in challenge level between Easy and Insane. The encounters within the Arena can also now be reset at any time, at whatever difficulty level is desired.

In addition, the summoned ninja clones can be called in four different difficulty level versions as well. The option exists to clear out the normal encounters from the Arena when summoning whatever amount of ninjas the player wants to fight, or they can be left in. The ninjas do not have to be the same difficulty level as the rest of the Arena. Harlequin, if still alive, will still fight against the ninjas while they exist within the Arena. (For a hilarious show, set the Arena difficulty to Insane, then summon a ton of Easy ninjas into the center with Harlequin.)

If asked, the Arena Master can run an analysis of the player character and rate their readiness for combat with a numeric value from 0 to 5, and then recommend what difficulty level their score most likely suits them for. This does not merely check the character's total Karma spent, but looks at their combat-oriented skills and specializations, Body, Dodge, and base AP. Points in Decking, for example, contribute nothing in this context.

Of course, various character builds may end up to be stronger, or weaker, in actual practice than the Arena Master's recommendation would suggest. Also, all testing and assumptions of challenge level are based on the game difficulty setting of Very Hard. If playing on a lower setting, the recommended Arena difficulty level may seem easier than expected.

The save-anywhere system built into this mod will keep track of what difficulty level is current, as well as which enemies are still alive and which are dead, and what difficulty of ninjas and how many there are in the Arena at the time of saving.

UPDATE 1.7 - Added the ability to hire a team of Shadowrunners to fight with your character in the Arena. Added practice targets of four different difficulties that players can test their damage and accuracy against without the targets dying or attacking them back. Significantly improved the Ghoul Frenzy mode, making it much more playable. You no longer have to wait for 40 ghouls to take their turns at once! Added some larger denominations of Nuyen available from the Nuyen giver NPC, so that people can buy some of the expensive Street Samurai Catalog stuff without having to add up 20,000 at a time.

No content update, just a small possible fix.

UPDATE 1.62 - The Street Samurai Catalog has been restored to the Training Room, including its brand new version, which adds a large variety of new cyberware designed by Tracker. This time the SSC gear does not require a dependency on the SSC content pack, so it should work fine for everyone.

Had to temporarily remove the Street Samurai Catalog weapons. Will work on returning them soon.

UPDATE 1.6 - A new merchant has joined the Training Room! Look for Tracker, who has brought the firepower of the Street Samurai Catalog for you to purchase, test out in the Arena, or take with you into other content.

UPDATE 1.52 - Just a couple of very small bug fixes.

UPDATE 1.51 - Small update, just improved the save system so that when you save, and load back into the scene, you're standing on the exact spot you were at before, rather than merely near it.

Also removed a trigger that I had in for testing purposes which was showing the number of ninjas alive on the map over your head when you clicked your character.