Ear Monster Guide

How to identify Ear

The creature’s official identity is tied to hearing rather than sight. If a threat reacts when the crew creates sound but does not behave like a sight hunter, Ear is the current typed-registry match.

The Monster Finder uses the same sound tag as this page and the monsters hub. It does not guess from appearance alone.

Verified behavior

The launch announcement states that Ear cannot see, hears everything, and comes swinging when noise is made. That supports a sound trigger; it does not reveal a complete aggro model, movement speed, or a guaranteed stealth threshold.

Other nearby creatures can still react independently, so silence around Ear is risk reduction rather than immunity.

Aug 19 range and hearing nerf

The Day One Hotfix reduced Ear’s attack range and hearing range. Both changes are current patch history, but the note does not publish before-and-after meters.

A later build could tune the values again. The durable claim is the direction of the Aug 19 change, not a fabricated radius.

Evidence-safe counterplay

Reduce optional noise, avoid testing the boundary at close range, and decide the crew’s movement order before interacting with nearby loot. Give the current attack space rather than treating the nerf as harmlessness.

In co-op, call the identification briefly and avoid several players creating competing sound. In solo, stage the hauling route before touching a noisy or awkward object.

What is not verified

No current official source provides hearing meters, attack meters, cooldown, health, damage, spawn probability, or a complete map-specific table. These fields stay absent instead of being backfilled from community guesses.

The official image proves appearance context, not numerical mechanics.

Registry and current scope

Ear is an EA-confirmed entity with a sound behavior tag, an Aug 19 patch record, and a detail route. The combined site roster is not presented as complete.

Use the hub to compare Ear with sight, disguise, disturbed, pull-sound, and group-context threats.

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