Quick answer: On Deaf Ears sends you to four spots in Stella Montis — Reception, the nearby lecture room, Medical Research, and Assembly Workshops — to use three terminals and loot one box/envelopes, then report back to Lance.
On Deaf Ears Quest Overview
On Deaf Ears is unlocked from Lance and plays out entirely on the Stella Montis map. You are reconstructing what a researcher was working on by pulling data from multiple terminals and retrieving printed shipping logs.
The objectives appear in this order:
- Reception
- Lecture location near the Business Center
- Medical Research
- Assembly Workshops
The quest does not have to be cleared in a single raid. Progress is saved between runs, so you can safely extract after any completed objective and continue later.
Best Loadout For Stella Montis
Stella Montis funnels players into tight indoor areas, especially around the Business Center and Medical Research. Most PvP encounters happen at short to mid range.
Close-range options work well here. Shotguns and compact automatic weapons such as the Stitcher or Bobcat are recommended so you can quickly win fights in corridors and stairwells.
Reception: Find The Researcher’s Guest Logs
The first objective is to obtain the researcher’s guest logs from Reception in the Business Center.
How to reach Reception
Head to the Lobby point of interest in Stella Montis. From the Lobby entrance, move into the Business Center and go up to the floor with Reception (the quest marker will guide you to the correct level on your map).
At Reception, you will find a counter or long panel with multiple computers. One of these terminals is highlighted for the quest.
What to interact with
Walk up to the highlighted Reception computer and interact with it to send the guest logs to Lance. Your objective will immediately advance to the lecture location.
Lecture Location: Access The Researcher’s Notes
The second task is to discover where the researcher held a lecture and upload their notes.
How to get from Reception to the lecture computer
The second terminal is close to the first.
From the Reception computer:
- Move straight ahead into the Business Center area.
Different descriptions highlight slightly different paths, but the outcome is the same: you reach a nearby office or auditorium space connected to the Business Center/Lobby level and find another quest-marked computer.
Follow your objective marker through the nearby doors and corridors; you are looking for a single accessible terminal or a set of lecture notes on a counter in the next room.
What to interact with
Once you reach the marked spot, interact with the second computer or notes. This uploads the lecture data to Lance and updates the quest to Medical Research.
Medical Research: Upload Prototype Information
The third objective sends you across Stella Montis to Medical Research to look up prototype details.
Reaching Medical Research
Medical Research sits on the opposite side of the map from the Business Center and Lobby. You have two practical options:
- Travel there directly through Stella Montis.
- Extract and queue into a new raid, hoping to spawn closer to Medical Research.
Once you arrive, push into the Medical Research complex. Approaches described include entering via the North Wing and moving inward to the quest marker.
Where the terminal is
Inside Medical Research, you are looking for a large computer near a doorway or in an upstairs or inner room, depending on your route. The terminal is clearly marked by the quest objective once you are in the right part of the building.
Interact with this Medical Research computer to transmit prototype information to Lance. The objective then updates to the Assembly Workshops.
Assembly Workshops: Retrieve Printed Shipping Logs
The final task is to recover physical shipping logs from the Assembly Workshops.
How to reach the Assembly Workshops
The Assembly Workshops are located north of Medical Research on Stella Montis. Move out of Medical Research and follow your objective marker toward the Assembly area.
Once inside the Assembly Workshops complex, head for the marked room. Descriptions point either to an upstairs room or to a control/admin room close to a door and terminal.
What to loot
In the target room you will find:
- A computer or admin terminal
- A nearby box or a stack of yellow envelopes
The quest completion item is physical: either a box you can search or envelopes on a desk. Use the interaction prompt on this container to pick up the printed shipping logs.
Known completion bug
Some players encounter an issue where interacting with the box/envelopes resets the animation without progressing the objective.
If this happens:
- Extract successfully to end the raid.
- Load into a new session and repeat only the Assembly Workshops step.
Surrendering or being knocked out can leave the interaction bugged, so a clean extraction before retrying the final step is safer.
Turning In On Deaf Ears And Rewards
After uploading the data from all three computers and collecting the printed shipping logs, leave Stella Montis and return to Lance in Speranza to complete On Deaf Ears.
| Quest Giver | Location | Notable Rewards |
|---|---|---|
| Lance | Speranza | Navy Blue (Warden Color), Lure Grenade x3, Noisemaker x5, Shaker |
Once the rewards are claimed, On Deaf Ears is fully wrapped up and you can move on to Lance’s next tasks in ARC Raiders.
