A Refreshing Bit of News is a side quest on Paradise Island in The Outer Worlds 2 that takes place in Fairfield when you side with Minister Milverstreet during the city’s political standoff. It’s a mix of exploration and fight, which leads you through the Ministry of Accuracy on the southern island’s western side.
This quest walkthrough tells how to start the A Refreshing Bit of News, where to go, how to explore through the Ministry to find the required info, and what rewards you’ll get by the end.
How to Start A Refreshing Bit of News in The Outer Worlds 2
To unlock A Refreshing Bit of News, go to Fairfield City Hall in the town’s center. You’ll get directed here during the main quest “The Saboteur of Paradise.” Inside, you’ll find Minister D.B. Milverstreet arguing with Officer Kaur over Auntie Cleo–related crisis.
Both will ask for your help, and you have the choice to either side with Milverstreet or Kaur.
- Siding with Milverstreet starts the A Refreshing Bit of News quest.
- Siding with Officer Kaur instead unlocks the Above and Beyond Repair quest.
You can only pick one, and Milverstreet’s path locks you out of Kaur’s quests, including Ascent in the Howling Tower.
Once you agree to work with Milverstreet, he explains that he needs intel on a Protectorate program called “Mental Refreshment” — supposedly a treatment for mental fatigue that has been covered up. He sends you to the Ministry of Accuracy, a government complex on the west coast of southern Paradise Island.
Before leaving Fairfield, stock up on ammo, Adreno, and shock weapons. You’ll run into a lot of Raptidons, and they love ambushing you in close quarters.
How to Get to the Ministry of Accuracy
The Ministry of Accuracy lies west of Fairfield, past a mix of jungle paths and rocky terrain patrolled by Raptidons, Automechs, and Crabble Hammerclaw. Stick to the main road leading out of the city’s west gate — it eventually leads you straight to the compound.
Defeat all enemies outside and before entering the Ministry of Accuracy building, check the small outer buildings around the courtyard. There’s a vending machine inside a small room you can use to restock, and you can find a good amount of loot from dead bodies and inside rooms. Once ready, head into the main building on the western end.
Meet Inez in the Ministry Building
Right after entering the main building, you’ll hear Inez’s voice. She is the trooper and former Combat Medic Milverstreet mentioned earlier, and the one previously sent here to retrieve the data. Pass through the unlocked door from the right to speak with Inez and choose the dialogue, “Milverstreet sent me. I’m here to find a report and send a “Trooper Silang” back to town.”
She’s tough, blunt, and clearly not thrilled about working for the minister. After a short exchange, she’ll agree to head back to Fairfield, leaving you to finish the mission alone. Once she leaves, move further into the Ministry building.
Find the Mental Refreshment Information
Enter the main hall through the unblocked door on the right behind Inez’s standing spot. Kill all Raptidon Spitters and Raptidon Hunters and loot everything you can inside the room, including their corpses. Now, climb the yellow ladder, which is just to the right of the door entrance, to reach the second floor.
Follow the catwalk and jump through the broken gap to get to the other end. On this end, use the terminal and select:
- ALERT: Overdue Deliverable
- Print Euphoria ARC Pass
This prints and gives you the Euphoria Coast Automech Repair Center Access Pass, a key item that unlocks access to ARC you need to visit during An Aegis Against Miasma side quest, so getting it now saves you from a trip later.
Next, climb the ladder from the computer’s left wall to the third floor. Jump another broken floor gap and defeat two Raptidon Spitters that drop from the upper section through the open hatch.
After dealing with them, look right toward the broken elevator shaft. Double climb the big pipes and then another climb to reach the fourth floor. Be careful with the climb; an unsuccessful jump from pipes to the upper section will drop you to the second floor, and you then have to climb the ladder to 3rd, jump across the broken section, and climb through the pipes again.
At the top, two Raptidons await one in front and the second in the walkway, so take them down and head through the doorway. From the walkway, drop to the lower section from the left.
Drop again to the down level with a vent opening, and dropping through this opening takes you to a closed office room.
Inside, you’ll find a computer terminal that has the Report on Mental Refreshment stored. Loot the body for some decent armor or loot, grab the High Security Lockbox and Advanced Decryption Key from the desk, and any Bits lying around.
Then interact with the computer and navigate to: Administrator’s Reports → New Horizons for Mental Refreshment → Print to Cartridge
This will give the data cartridge Milverstreet task you to retrieve.
Return to Minister Milverstreet to Deliver the Cartridge
With the information collected, return to Milverstreet in the Ministry of Accuracy — retrace your steps or fast travel directly to Fairfield if you’ve unlocked it. Back at Fairfield City Hall, you’ll find Milverstreet in another heated exchange — this time with Inez, who’s clearly done working for him. Interrupt the conversation, hand over the Report on Mental Refreshment, and complete the quest.
Milverstreet rewards you with:
- 1080 XP
- 350 Bit Cartridge
- Topmost Coat (his green jacket replica, stylish and stat-booster)
- +3 Reputation with Auntie’s Choice
After you turn in the report, Inez confronts Milverstreet again, declaring she’s done taking orders from him. Once she storms off, you can talk to her outside to recruit her as a companion and start her personal quest, “Better Than Nature.”
Meanwhile, Milverstreet offers to continue your alliance with his next job, “The Brain Benders of Auntie’s Choice.” You can take it immediately or do something else and come back later for it.
