FEDRA
FEDRA, the Federal Disaster Response Agency, is the military government that runs the Boston quarantine zone. Its soldiers are the best-equipped enemies in the first chapters, and you fight them while smuggling Ellie out of Boston.
- Threat
- High
- Type
- Human
Good to know
- Armored regulars carry assault rifles with flashlights; lighter troops inside the wall mostly use 9mm pistols, and some use revolvers.
- Riot helmets can stop a headshot.
- Handheld scanners test people for infection.
- Soldiers also run Humvees with mounted machine guns.
- Inside the Boston wall you can't fight them: bump a guard twice and he shoots you dead.
- You can't pick up their assault rifles in Boston.
Where you fight them
The Quarantine Zone shows soldiers breaking up Firefly cells. In The Outskirts a patrol stops Joel, Tess and Ellie outside the wall, Humvees and infantry sweep the downtown, and squads hunt the group through the Capitol building and the subway beneath it.
How to handle them
Early on you lack the guns and ammo for a stand-up fight, so sneak past or stealth kill. Small groups in the Capitol and the subway only carry pistols and can be taken head-on. In Left Behind, recordings from a Denver squad at the Colorado Mountain Plaza tell their own story.
- AustinAustin, Texas is where The Last of Us Part I begins: the Prologue of Hometown plays out on outbreak night in September 2013 as Joel, his daughter Sarah and his brother Tommy try to escape the city. It is the only region you visit before the 20-year time skip.
- BostonBoston, Massachusetts is the first region after the time skip and the city where Ellie grew up. You play The Quarantine Zone and The Outskirts here, and Left Behind's flashbacks with Riley take place in the same city. FEDRA holds the North End as one of the last working quarantine zones in the country.
- Jackson County Hydro Dam ReservoirThe Jackson County Hydro Dam Reservoir is the hydroelectric plant that powers Tommy's town of Jackson, and where Joel and Ellie finally find Tommy in Tommy's Dam. It is the setting of the Hydroelectric Dam section and a bandit attack.
- LincolnLincoln is a small Massachusetts town a few miles from Boston and the setting of Bill's Town, the fourth chapter. Joel and Ellie come here to call in a favor from Bill, a paranoid survivor who has rigged the whole town with traps, because they need a working vehicle.
- Massachusetts State HouseThe Massachusetts State House, usually called the Capitol Building in the game, is where Marlene sends Joel and Tess to hand Ellie to a waiting Firefly group. It is the goal of The Outskirts and gives the chapter's last section its name.
- 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.
- Quarantine zoneQuarantine zones are the walled, military-run safe areas FEDRA set up across the United States after martial law was declared. Most have since fallen to infection, revolt or abandonment. Boston's North End zone is the one you live in and play through at the start of Part I, and you pass the dead zones of Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City later.
- Salt Lake CitySalt Lake City, Utah is the last stop on Joel and Ellie's search for the Fireflies. It is an abandoned quarantine zone where the Fireflies hold Saint Mary's Hospital, and you play the Bus Depot and The Firefly Lab chapters here in spring 2034.
Related enemies
- 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.
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.
- Infected
Clicker
Clickers are blind stage three infected that find you by the clicking sound they make. Their grab kills instantly unless you carry a shiv and have the Shiv Master upgrade, so most players deal with them quietly or with fire.
- 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.