The new additional voice packs have been released. (LEGEND & VENUS OUT NOW – ASTRA UPDATED TO 1.6.3 ALSO READY FOR DOWNLOAD). MARS is coming in a few days and DARK in 10 days. This means new, dynamic options. You can now switch between “crew” members individually, make “mixed” crew profiles and allocate different roles for your characters. In practice you can use Astra for take off & landings, Legend for flight, Venus for information & Mars for tactical and weapons. It’s very immersive! Astra is of course our flagship Ai – This means she is the chosen one, the most trusted Ai to have rank over the others to some extent – With this in mind we added Hierarchical Orders, an additional bunch of character sound sets so that you can give Astra an order and in turn she will order the crew members to carry out tasks you choose – All with sounds that address the other Ai’s personally.

The options now are an unimaginable amount of combinations – Something that will give you a great sense of both realism and presence of crew. I have to say, it’s an AWESOME FEELING!!! I guess you’ll have to try this and do let us know . We include great profiles but do not include the profile switching or mixed crew profiles because there’s no way to marry them up and ship them with our packs. There’ll be video guides on YouTube to get you started on these though. It’s both fun and simple to do this and it also means you can put your own stamp on it, make your own choices. Which is ultimately why we’ve made it so flexible. Again, these features are AWESOME!

Additional content has been added to Astra to make this more interactive and immersive – I’ve added character references so that Mars, Venus, Legend and Dark are clearly known to Astra and she can name them, refer to them, switch to them using these additional sound files. Rank responses have been added as well, these include Ma’am, Captain, Commander and Sir

‘2 Way S-Ai’ or “Two Way Simulated Ai” is something we are building on, a simple concept, that creates the illusion of 2 way interaction between yourself and Astra – We’ve made the profiles with this included. For instance, after you’ve taken off Astra will occasionally ask you something randomly – It could be that she says “I’ve something I wish to share with you” and you can respond with either “Okay, go ahead” to get a response, ignore it say anything else to not get anything more or simply tell Astra to not disturb you again. For now there is a whole bunch of these statements and pieces of information she’ll give to you or advise you on. I won’t tell you what these are because it might spoil the surprise. This feature can be turned on and off with the command “Interaction mode on” or “Interaction mode off”.

There’s also a random response Stephen Hawking Quotes pack we’ve put together as well – You can ask “Quote Stephen Hawking” and Astra will gracefully recite an incredible quote from the genius at random. There’s a bunch of these, again we’ll build some more of these in the future.

We’ve given a great deal of thought about how we can bring more value to the product and ultimately make it so that you have a far richer experience. And, we’ll continue to do so. Please keep your suggestions coming in, also we’d like to add more to the ‘2 Way S-Ai’ so feel free to email in statements you’d like from Astra and indeed any additional commands for all space sims, we’d welcome them.