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It was done intentionally. The 2011 Demo did have voice overs, but that was in 2011. Between 2011 and 2025 the plans for how the mod should be released have since changed. All the voice overs in the mod as of right now are AI generated, the background NPCs and the random vendor use generic templates offered from ElevenLabs whilst the Quarren Jedi is quite literally the Quarren alien VO that's been cloned using AI. The Duros party member Nindu who appears at the end of the 2011 Demo and as a cameo in the Episode One release will have a hybrid between Kotor I and Kotor II Duros VO and will be fully voiced. As for why we didn't voice any of the important characters, like Master Drayen and Uldir, we did that because their roles aren't finished and because they aren't finished there are quite a few problems preventing us from voicing these characters: 1) Reworks/Rewrites/Revisions/Improvements/Player Feedback: We want to take on player feedback as we develop the mod so we can improve upon the previous content. One piece of feedback that we've received from players is that they don't like how Drayen implies that he trained the Jedi Exile without mentioning Kavar and Vima Sunrider. We're going to go back and improve upon that piece of content by mentioning the Exile's other masters, but if Drayen was voiced than we couldn't have done that. 2) Good voice actors want to be paid for their work: People hate mods with bad VO, pre-1.3 M4-78EP and Cathalan are disliked by most players with poor VO being a big reason for them not liking those mods. Actors who can voice good VO lines would probably want to be paid for their work as they can turn this skill into something that pays them, and considering Drayen and Uldir would have between 100 and 500 lines in Episode One alone these actors would no doubt want to be paid. 3) Actors might be rendered unavailable and/or disappear: Since the ROR mod isn't finished, we wouldn't want to pay someone to voice Uldir for a few Episodes only for those actors to have a stroke in five years time and then become unavailable to record the final two Episode lines. We'd be forced to remove all of that actor's lines, meaning we paid him for nothing, and we'd have to pay another actor to revoice those previous lines meaning more money is being wasted. The most ideal way to prevent all of these problems is to have the VO recorded last. That way we can go back and change dialogue and content we need changed without fear or wasting VO and money, we can bulk bill actors to voice thousands of audio lines if need be and we'd only have to pay them once and be done with it, and if we do it like that then the actors can disappear afterwards without impacting the ROR mod.