Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is the chapter where hunters take over: armed locals who drove out the military and now ambush anyone passing through. Joel and Ellie are forced off the road downtown, fight through the Hotel Grand and the Financial District, and join brothers Henry and Sam to reach the bridge out of the city.
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Part 5 of 12 in Main story
Good to know
- Chapter 5 of 12; August 2033.
- Sections: Alone and Forsaken, Hotel Lobby, Financial District, Escape the City.
- 28 collectibles, the most of any chapter: 17 artifacts, 4 comics, 4 training manuals and 3 Firefly pendants.
- Also here: 3 workbenches, 1 safe, 2 shiv doors and a level 2 tool upgrade.
- Force Carrier and Termination Shock, in the first section, are the first comics in the game and unlock Savage Starlight Fan.
- Lights Out trophy: in Escape the City, cut the generator powering the hunters' spotlight without being spotted.
- Enemies: hunters, stalkers and a bloater (the bloater is not in the hotel basement on Easy).
- Joel gives Ellie a 9mm pistol here, for emergencies only.
Sections in order
1. Alone and Forsaken: the ambush and the hunters' streets. 2. Hotel Lobby: the Hotel Grand and its basement. 3. Financial District: overwatch with Ellie and a Humvee chase. 4. Escape the City: meeting Henry and Sam and the night run to the bridge.
Alone and Forsaken
On the drive in, Ellie talks about her Savage Starlight comic and the things she took from Bill's. The road to the Fort Duquesne Bridge is blocked, so Joel cuts through downtown, where a man faking an injury springs an ambush: a bus slams the truck into a store and you fight your way out. Past the hunters' hideout and an old army checkpoint you learn the townspeople overthrew the military, then you sneak through a bookstore. Ten artifacts, two comics, Risk's pendant and Health: Splinting are here.
Hotel Lobby
In the Hotel Grand, Ellie plays a fussy guest at the front desk if you wait around. Upstairs you fight hunters until an elevator drop strands Joel in the flooded basement with stalkers and a bloater, where he has to start a generator to power a keycard door. Climbing back, a hunter pins Joel and Ellie saves him with his own gun, and Joel scolds her for it. Two artifacts, Accretion, Reed's pendant and two manuals (Melee: Knots and Shiv: Reinforcement) are in the hotel.
Financial District
Joel shows Ellie how to use a hunting rifle, leaves her on scaffolding to cover him, and quietly thanks her before heading in. After the fight he hands her the pistol. An armored Humvee then hunts you through the streets until you lose it in a building. Four notes, Deep Phase, Rios's pendant and Molotov: Construction are here.
Escape the City
A man grabs Joel in a dark room and a boy points a gun at him: Henry and Sam, brothers on the run from the hunters. They take you to their hideout in an office overlooking the bridge checkpoint and explain the guards thin out at night. After dark you take out the outer guards, kill the spotlight's generator and fight your way to the gate. The trial note is the only collectible in this section.
The bridgeSpoilerShow
When the Humvee returns, a ladder breaks under Ellie and leaves Joel stuck on the wrong side of a truck. Henry flees with Sam rather than wait, while Ellie climbs back down to Joel. The two fight through a bar and onto the broken bridge, and Ellie jumps into the river to escape the Humvee. Joel follows and pulls her up, but the current smashes them into a rock and knocks them out.
- Fort Duquesne BridgeThe Fort Duquesne Bridge is the hunter-guarded crossing out of Pittsburgh that Joel, Ellie, Henry and Sam try to slip across at night in the Escape the City section of the Pittsburgh chapter. Its broken middle span forces a jump into the river below.
- PittsburghPittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a former quarantine zone now run by hunters who ambush anyone passing through. Joel and Ellie spend two chapters here, Pittsburgh and The Suburbs, and meet the brothers Henry and Sam. Expect heavy human combat and the largest pile of collectibles in the game.
- Spenzür ArchitectureSpenzür Architecture is a Pittsburgh office and apartment building where Henry and Sam are hiding when Joel and Ellie meet them. The four rest here and plan their night escape over the bridge.
- The Hotel GrandThe Hotel Grand is a ruined luxury hotel in Pittsburgh that gives the Hotel Lobby section its name. Hunters hold the upper floors and infected lurk in the basement, and the lobby hides a safe worth opening.
- Abandon Zone NoteThe Abandon Zone Note sits on the desk in the office at the far left end of the bookstore's first floor in Pittsburgh.
- AccretionAccretion, issue 6 of Savage Starlight, sits on a coffee table in a lounge on the second floor of the Hotel Grand, during the Hotel Lobby section of Pittsburgh.
- Ambush MapThe Ambush Map is pinned to the wall of the room at the end of the hallway. Leave the stairs in the room with the two dead bodies, follow the corridor to its end and look on the wall.
- Applicant ChecklistThe Applicant Checklist is under the stairs on the far left of the bookstore's ground floor in Pittsburgh.
- Deep PhaseDeep Phase, issue 10 of Savage Starlight, waits in a child's bedroom behind a shiv door in the building where you meet Henry and Sam, in the Financial District section of Pittsburgh.
- Final Attack NoteThe Final Attack Note is on the floor by a desk chair in an office in the Financial District. After the cutscene where a Humvee guns down two civilians, go upstairs and deal with the two patrolling hunters.
- Fireflies NoteThe Fireflies Note is inside the refrigerator of the sandwich shop in the corner beside the coffee shop, in Pittsburgh's Financial District.
- Force CarrierForce Carrier, issue 3 of Savage Starlight, is the one comic you cannot miss: Ellie swipes it from Bill's safehouse, and it lands in your collection automatically when Pittsburgh begins.
- Health: SplintingHealth: Splinting is a training manual in the hunters' building early in Pittsburgh. It makes crafted health kits 33% stronger.
- Hotel KeycardThe Hotel Keycard is in the security room in the basement of the Hotel Grand, on the desk by the monitors. You need it to open the door out of the basement.
- Lost Areas MapThe Lost Areas Map is behind a locked door on the bookstore's second floor, in the room next to the coffee shop. You need a shiv to open it.
- Lost Hill NoteThe Lost Hill Note is in the far-left booth just past the bus you jump over into the Pittsburgh quarantine zone. It is written in a blue FEDRA notebook.
- Melee: KnotsMelee: Knots is a training manual on a wooden table near the exit of the Hotel Grand in Pittsburgh. It lets a modified melee weapon land one more one-hit kill before the upgrade wears off.
- Mob Attack NoteThe Mob Attack Note is behind a desk in a back room on the second floor of a building in the Financial District, in the area crowded with hunters just after the Final Attack Note.
- Molotov: ConstructionMolotov: Construction is a training manual on the kitchen counter of the apartment where you meet Henry and Sam in Pittsburgh. It widens a Molotov's fire radius to 1.5 times normal.
- Mother's LetterThe Mother's Letter lies on a white armchair behind a door marked with a red X, right beside the blue truck as you enter the area before the hotel in Pittsburgh. The door is locked, so bring a shiv.
- Note to StaffThe Note to Staff is in a suitcase on the floor at the corner of a hallway in the Hotel Grand. After climbing the ladder, go right and shimmy across the collapsed stairs to reach it.
- Reed's Firefly PendantReed's Firefly pendant is on the floor of a stall in the women's restroom of the Hotel Grand, during the Hotel Lobby section of Pittsburgh. It belonged to Colby Reed.
- Rios's Firefly PendantRios's Firefly pendant sits on a toilet in a second-floor bathroom in the Financial District section of Pittsburgh. It belonged to Lucas Rios.
- Risk's Firefly PendantRisk's Firefly pendant lies at the end of an alley beside the bookstore in the Alone and Forsaken section of Pittsburgh. It belonged to Kazden Risk.
- Shiv: ReinforcementShiv: Reinforcement is a training manual locked in the safe in the Hotel Grand lobby in Pittsburgh. It adds another hit to every shiv you craft.
- Siphon HoseThe Siphon Hose is waiting in Joel's backpack when the Pittsburgh chapter begins, so you collect it without doing anything.
- Stash NoteThe Stash Note is on a counter near the far end of the second floor of the coffee shop where the hunters build their bridge, just before you enter the hotel in Pittsburgh.
- Termination ShockTermination Shock, issue 1 of Savage Starlight, lies at the back of an empty bus just outside the hunters' building in the Alone and Forsaken section of Pittsburgh.
- Tourists ManifestThe Tourists Manifest lies on an overturned cart in the garage with two dead bodies, early in the Alone and Forsaken section of Pittsburgh.
- Traitors FlyerThe Traitors Flyer is posted on the wall on your entry side at the end of the long checkpoint tent in Pittsburgh's quarantine zone.
- Trial NoteThe Trial Note is on the floor in the corner of a boardroom in the Escape the City section of Pittsburgh. After Henry opens the first door on the way to his safehouse in the old architecture office, the boardroom is straight ahead.
- Truck NoteThe Truck Note is in the ration depot just before the ladder that climbs to the military preparatory school area of Pittsburgh's Financial District.
- Ellie WilliamsEllie Williams is the 14-year-old girl Joel is hired to smuggle out of Boston, and your companion for most of The Last of Us Part I. She was bitten weeks earlier and never turned, so the Fireflies believe her immunity could lead to a vaccine. You play as her in the winter chapter and in the Left Behind DLC.
- HenryHenry is a young survivor from Hartford who is trying to get his little brother Sam out of hunter-held Pittsburgh. He and Joel get off to a bad start in a brawl, then team up to escape the city, and he fights beside you through the end of Pittsburgh and The Suburbs.
- JeremyJeremy is a FEDRA soldier in Pittsburgh, mentioned in the Lost Hill note you can find in the Pittsburgh chapter. A squadmate writes that Jeremy and a soldier named Pam were left behind when the hunters took Troy Hill.
- Joel MillerJoel Miller is the man you play for almost all of The Last of Us Part I. A hardened smuggler in the Boston quarantine zone, he takes a job escorting 14-year-old Ellie out of the city, and the drop-off turns into a year-long trip across the country to find the Fireflies.
- MastrosCaptain Mastros is the senior FEDRA officer left in the Pittsburgh quarantine zone. He appears only in two artifacts from the Pittsburgh chapter: the Abandon zone note he wrote and the Mob attack note about him.
- SamSam is Henry's 13-year-old brother, a quiet, anxious kid who becomes Ellie's first friend her own age on the road. You travel with him from the hideout in Pittsburgh through the sewers and suburbs in The Suburbs.
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