It's the 8th year of the apocalypse. You live in Altura with your survivor group, Doc, Murphy, Mack, Warren, Charles, 10K, Vasquez and Citizen Z. Other people in the outpost include Dante, Roman, George, The Man, and Finn.

Altura was a zombie-free outpost in Canada, with a population of about 1.2K, with its sister outpost, Pacifica, housing almost 1.5K.