STARVAULT VR

New Character - Nitro, New season, Balance

Theia Games

New Hero — Nitro

Nitro is now available!

His main weapon is a Rocket Launcher with a built-in rocket jump mechanic.

Passive Ability: Run quickly on all fours, activated with Y. Movement speed increased by 30%, with increased jump height. Grabbing your weapon switches you back to normal mode.

Abilities:

  1. Jetpack — Fly through the air using a jetpack. Hold the left trigger to activate.
  2. Invincibility — When your health drops below 20%, Sprint activates automatically and grants temporary invincibility. Passive ability.
  3. Slingshot — Fires projectiles that create high-damage zones.

New Season

  • A new season has begun!
  • Full MMR reset.

Titan

  • The Titan fight has been reworked and now works more like fighting a captured Titan.
  • The encounter is designed around a fast capture by a full team of 5 players. Capturing it with 2 players is much slower and more difficult, while attempting it solo is impractical.
  • The Titan now focuses its attacks on the nearest players.

Balance

Green Artifact

  • Fixed a bug that caused it to increase all healing instead of only regeneration.

Zara

  • Healing increased by 20%.
  • Damage Mastery bonus reduced by 20%.
  • Ultimate: Energy regeneration increased by 16%.

Daniel Slater

  • Ultimate: Preparation time reduced by 0.5s.
  • Grapple Line: Cooldown reduced by 4s.
  • Flash Module: Now also slows enemies by 20%.

Caleo

  • New Passive: Missing an attack restores 50% of one dagger.
  • Turtle Medallion: Now also applies a 20% slow.

R3

  • Vampiric Recharge Mastery: Fixed a bug that caused the Mastery to double all healing. Now also grants +10% Vampirism.
  • Speed Mastery: Bonus increased from 15% → 20%.
  • Blaze Rush Mastery: Duration increased by 50%.
  • Shield increased by 7%.

Vael'Um

  • Ground Targeting: Maximum range limited to 80m.
  • Teleport is no longer interrupted by Knockback or Mute.
  • Teleport distance now scales with Vael'Um's movement speed.
  • Teleport direction is now visually indicated.

Bug Fixes

  • ApeX-9 can now move his arms while affected by Immobilize.
  • Fixed an issue with recentring in certain situations.

This announcement was originally published by Theia Games on Steam on Aug 27, 2026.

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