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Pittsburgh: Hotel Lobby

The Hotel Grand: the lobby and its safe, the hunters' floors, the flooded basement, and the way back up and out.

The safe's code never changes, so this walk opens the safe on the way in and takes its note at the top of the ladder, with no trip back down. That also sets up the fourth jokes and gives you an Explosive for Geared Up. Later the elevator drops Joel alone into the basement, where a Bloater can be left alive. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.

Safe: Hotel Coat CheckOther
Training Manual: Shiv ReinforcementUpgrade
Conversation: Coffee MachineOther
Geared UpAchievement
Location
Pittsburgh · Hotel Lobby – Craft a Smoke Bomb now, from the bar's Sugar and the safe's Explosive. If any of the other five is still uncrafted, make it from the crafting menu too: the trophy pops on the sixth. If you're short, more Explosive lies in the rooms ahead, and restarting a checkpoint hands materials back, so you can craft, restart and craft again. If it has already popped, just tick this.
Summary
Earned by crafting all six items at least once: Health Kit, Molotov, Shiv, Melee Upgrade, Nail Bomb and Smoke Bomb.
Trophies
  • Achievement · SteamGeared Up
  • Bronze · PlayStationGeared Up
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Artefact: Note to StaffCollectible
Conversation: Ellie's Jokes 4Other
Location
Pittsburgh · Hotel Lobby – Shimmy back to the landing by the elevators and wait a minute or two without going up the stairs. The jokes need the Note to Staff, the safe and its manual done first, so on a replay do all three again before you wait. Take the prompt when the book comes out and hear every joke.
Summary
The fourth set of jokes. It needs setup in this sub-chapter.
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Before you go up the stairs

Stop at the coffee machine, take the Note to Staff, open the safe, take the Shiv Reinforcement manual, and hear the fourth jokes on the landing.

Up the lobby stairs and out the windowQuest step
Location
Pittsburgh · Hotel Lobby – From the landing, go up the stairs and climb out of the window on to the roof. Cross the roof to the window on your left and stop until the hunters inside finish talking.
Summary
The stairs above the landing lead out on to the roof and the hunters' floors.
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Clear the Hotel roomsQuest step
Location
Pittsburgh · Hotel Lobby – Strangle the nearest hunter at the window, then work along the corridor with the listen ability, taking each one from behind. Go up by the path on the left and do the same on the upper floor, staying in cover in the open areas. Clear both floors: the talk in Room 304 needs it.
Summary
Hunters hold two floors of rooms.
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Conversation: Bodies in the BathOther
Before you open the elevator

Talk to Ellie in the Room 304 bathroom first, with both floors clear.

Open the elevator, boost Ellie, swim the flooded roomsQuest step
Location
Pittsburgh · Hotel Lobby – Follow the path past the burning barrel and go upstairs to the elevator. Open it, climb the ladder, drop back down and boost Ellie up until the car falls. Swim across, go through the door on the right, follow the way ahead to a doorway, and dive through the submerged stretch until you come up.
Summary
Joel boosts Ellie up the shaft, and the car drops him into the flooded basement.
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Artefact: Hotel KeycardCollectible
Location
Pittsburgh · Hotel Lobby – Face the doorway marked West Tower B1, dive back in and swim the tunnel past the gate. Climb the broken concrete ramp, go through the room on the right and take its first door on the right, then cross the hall to the security room, with your Shotgun ready. The card is by the stack of TVs.
Summary
The card the way out depends on, which also counts as an Artefact.
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Before you start the generator

Take the Hotel Keycard from the security room first. The generator brings out a Bloater, and the door out needs the card.

Basement: start the generatorQuest step
Location
Pittsburgh · Hotel Lobby – Go back down the broken floor and into the room on the left, and start the generator. A Bloater comes for you, and you don't have to fight it.
Summary
The generator powers the card door, and starting it brings out a Bloater.
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Bloater: Hotel BasementBoss
Location
Pittsburgh · Hotel Lobby – It hunts you through the spore rooms once the generator runs. If you want the fight, keep your distance, dodge the spore bombs, throw Molotovs and finish it with Shotgun blasts to the head.
Summary
A Bloater you can leave alive. Nothing later needs it dead.
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Workbench: Hotel Upper FloorArea
Location
Pittsburgh · Hotel Lobby – Run up to the second floor, follow the path to the left to the end of the spores and use the Keycard on the door. Climb the stairs into the maintenance hall: the bench is in the first room on the right. Open it to register it, even with nothing to spend. Put any parts you have into the Revolver and spend on nothing else until Combat Ready is done.
Summary
The fourth of the 11 workbenches, just past the basement.
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Kitchen fight, then the ladderHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepMinor spoiler
Location
Pittsburgh · Hotel Lobby – Hide behind the fridge in the kitchen and take the two hunters when they split up, then strangle the ones in the dining area. Carry the ladder to the back left corner and climb. When a hunter grabs Joel, keep hitting the prompt until the scene ends.
Summary
Hunters hold the kitchen and the dining area, and a struggle waits at the ladder.
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Comic: AccretionCollectible
Before you drop down the broken stairs

Take Accretion from the far side of the balcony first.

Firefly Pendant: Colby ReedCollectible
Training Manual: Melee KnotsUpgrade
Conversation: Hawaii BackdropOther
Before you push the piano

Take the Colby Reed pendant and the Melee Knots manual, and finish all three prompts at the backdrop.

About this guide

One run of the story and one of Left Behind, on any difficulty: no trophy depends on it. The story is one way, so take each pickup before you move on. After the credits, Chapter Select clears anything its menu shows as short, but take the Workbench Tools on the first run: the menu doesn't show them, and one taken on a replay may not count.

Last verified: Nov 7, 2026 · Patch Latest patch (PS5, PC on Steam and Epic), with Left Behind · 0 community corrections shipped

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