David's Group
David's group are a group of survivors from a town at Silver Lake, Colorado who hunt Joel and Ellie through the winter. You fight them at the University of Eastern Colorado, in Left Behind at the Colorado Mountain Plaza, and around Lakeside Resort.
- Threat
- Medium
- Type
- Human
Good to know
- They don't wear armor, but carry pistols, revolvers, hunting rifles, shotguns and sometimes bows, plus hatchets, pipes and 2x4s.
- Scavenging parties get the best guns; the town watch mostly carries revolvers.
- The group at the Mountain Plaza used Molotovs to good effect against the infected there.
- They are skilled trackers and often hide from infected, attacking once the infected are a safe distance away.
What the group hidesSpoilerShow
They capture travelers and eat them to get through the winter. The same kind of desperate survivors attack Ellie at the Colorado Mountain Plaza in Left Behind.
Fighting them as Ellie
Ellie is smaller and weaker than they are. If you trade blows, they block after a couple of strikes and choke or punch her down, much like clickers do to Joel. Pick them off with stealth, and let the infected soften them up where both are present.
How they work
The group votes on decisions and holds town meetings, and members often act on their own, chasing Joel and Ellie to avenge friends they lost. The group includes women and children, rare outside the quarantine zones.
Spoiler: what happens in Silver LakeSpoilerShow
The group is led by David, with James as his second in command. After the university fight leaves Joel badly hurt, Ellie trades with David and James for medicine, but the group later captures her. Joel recovers, forces the location out of two cannibals at the cabins and tracks her to the town, while Ellie escapes, kills James and then kills David in the restaurant with his own machete.
- BoulderBoulder, Colorado is where Joel and Ellie search the University of Eastern Colorado for the Fireflies in The University chapter. Left Behind's present-day story picks up nearby at the Colorado Mountain Plaza mall, so this region covers both the campus and the mall.
- Colorado Mountain PlazaColorado Mountain Plaza is the snowbound mall near Boulder where Ellie hunts for medical supplies in Left Behind's present-day chapters. You play Back in a Flash, So Close and The Enemy of My Enemy here, fighting both infected and hostile survivors.
- Silver LakeSilver Lake is a snowbound Colorado resort town and the setting of the Lakeside Resort chapter, where Ellie is playable for most of the winter. A group led by David lives here. Its surroundings include an abandoned coal mine and the Whitefish Lake rest area.
- University of Eastern ColoradoThe University of Eastern Colorado is the Boulder campus where Joel and Ellie expect to find the Fireflies in The University chapter. You search it on horseback and on foot through the Go Big Horns and Science Building sections, and it holds 17 collectibles.
Related enemies
Image: Naughty Dog / PlayStationInfectedBloater
Bloaters are stage four infected covered in armor-like fungus. They are slow and blind but kill you instantly if they grab you, and they throw bursting sacks of mycotoxin from range. Fire is the way to beat them.
- Human
Fireflies
The Fireflies are the militia fighting FEDRA's rule and searching for a cure, led by Marlene. Their slogan, look for the light, is painted across the ruins, and their deal with Joel and Tess to smuggle Ellie out of Boston starts the story.
- Infected
Infected
The Infected are people taken over by a mutant Cordyceps fungus, and they are the main threat between every human fight in The Last of Us Part I. In Part I and Left Behind you meet four stages: runners, stalkers, clickers and bloaters, each harder to kill than the last.
- Infected
Runner
Runners are stage one infected, people turned within the last couple of days. They still see, move fast and swarm in packs, so the danger is numbers rather than any single runner.