Checkpoint 1 - The City

### Features

Office skyscrapers, Circular Buildings, residential buildings, old-looking buildings, ramp

## Drivers

### New drivers

Mr. Olsen, Ms. Fitzpatrick, the car without a driver, Mr. Mayfield, Mr. Beck, Dr. Trevino, police officer Johnson, Ben Womack, Clark Jensen.

### Recurring drivers

Julia, Charles Schneider, Mrs. Clemons, the man who calls himself Mr. Lee, Dwayne, Mr. Baker

## Summary

### Overview

**The City** is the second level of Does Not Commute and is a little more challenging than the Suburb. You start off with the amount of time you ended the Suburb with and don't forget, if it runs out, GAME OVER for YOU!

### Description

This level consists of what you'd typically find in a city: Buildings, buildings and more buildings, with the exception of a park with two weird shaped circular buildings (which appear to be the buildings that would later appear in The Metropolis/Future), an under-construction building with red and blue containers stacked next to it, a river flowing in the middle of the city, a ramp to jump across, a bridge, two mini bridges, two alleyways to drive through and 15 vehicles instead of 13. The time of the day for this level is early rainy morning to sunny mid-afternoon.

### Drivers

The new drivers introduced are Mr. Olsen, Inventor and designer Ms. Fitzpatrick, a car with NO driver, Mr. Mayfield, Mr. Beck, Dr. Trevino, Police officer Johnson, federal investigator Ben Womack and Spiritual advisor Clark Jensen. The familiar drivers are Julia, Dentist Charles Schneider, Mrs. Clemons, the man who calls himself Mr. Lee, Garbage man Dwayne and Advertiser Mr. Baker.The previous level is The Suburb. The next level is The Beach.

On tonight's GRIPPING installation to the Does Not Commute Wiki, we are introduced to more residents of this mysterious town, with continuations of previous events and NEW mysteries.

### Story summary

* We have a certain spiritual advisor named Clark Jensen associated with a highly classified top secret car with the help of Ms. Fitzpatrick, a distinguished inventor of a distinguished corporation called Vehintelligence Inc.
* Mr. Mayfield continues his peculiar addiction to Yorkshire Terriers and even buys himself a Yorkshire Terrier suit, wonder what Mrs. Mayfield would think of it.
* Mr. Beck suffered from his passion - a passion for Postwoman Betty.
* The man who calls himself Mr. Lee settles into Mr. Lee's life, he is an expert of staying above suspicion from the other residents.
* Dr. Trevino enjoys life driving without pants... until Officer Johnson pulls her over, an embarrassing scene that must have been.
* Garbage man Dwayne continues to harbor his secret desire for Mrs. Beck's love, maybe he plans to make a sculpture of her [in the Garbage Dump/Golf Course], due to him visiting the town's museum.
* Dentist Charles Schneider takes out some peculiar books from the library, for a dentist you know.
* Federal investigator Ben Womack, FBI extraordinaire, Time & Space Investigations man heads out in search of adventure!
* Mrs. Clemons and Mr. Olsen spend large sums of money on spiritual advisory, boy does Clark Jensen charge them a lot.
* We find out about Advertiser Mr. Baker's severe taste-bud disorder, but that doesn't seem to bother him too much as long as everything is "nice and pricey" and "tasty and spicy". Read on to see for yourself!

## The story goes as follows:

1. As Julia got closer to the office, she decided to skip work. Now she's on her way to the closest Buymore Mall to buy fireworks, methylated spirits and a hammer-drill.[1]
2. Mr. Olsen recently acquired the moped, on which he rides to see his spiritual advisor. The very same spiritual advisor sold him the moped. The vehicle consecration was a very difficult and expensive process.[2]
3. Inventor and designer Ms. Fitzpatrick is on her way to work at Vehintelligence Inc. She has just finished a very interesting prototype for an anonymous client.[3]
4. This car doesn't have a driver. Isn't that strange?[4]
5. Mr. Mayfield is especially happy today. He's heading to the Fantasy Suit Store. They finally have the adult-sized Yorkshire Terrier suit back in stock.[5]
6. Dentist Charles Schneider skipped lunch and went to the library jnstead. He's heading back to his clinic with the books "Temporal Paradoxes" and "Retrocausality in Practice".[6]
7. Mrs. Clemons leaves the spiritual advisor with five hundred dollars less in her wallet.[7]
8. Mr. Beck takes a taxi home, as a recent surgery has prohibited him to drive a car.[8]
9. Pantless driving is a one of a kind pleasure, Dr. Trevino thinks to herself as she smiles to the other motorists while on her way to a lunch meeting.[9]
10. Mr. Lee leads a very pleasant life, thinks the man who calls himself Mr. Lee. He just kissed Mr. Lee's wife goodbye, dropped off Mr. Lee's kids at school, and is now driving to Mr. Lee's work.[10]
11. Garbage man Dwayne often makes time to stop by museums during the day. He finds it inspirational for his own sculptures. He's currently working on one called "Mrs. Beck".[11]
12. Police officer Johnson checked the license of a very friendly doctor earlier. His [ Johnson 's] cheeks seem a little rosy.[12]
13. Advertiser Mr. Baker just had an expensive lunch. Sadly enough, Mr. Baker was born with a severe taste-bud disorder, making it impossible for him to smell or taste. "Nice and pricey, is tasty and spicy" Mr. Baker whispers.[13]
14. Federal investigator Ben Womack just left the bureau. He's in charge of Time & Space Investigations. It's not an official department yet; Ben is the only person at the bureau who knows about it.[14]
15. Spiritual advisor Clark Jensen is productive today. He consulted a few clients this morning, and was just at the bank where he transferred a considerable amount of money to Vehintelligence Inc. He's now on his way to the beach.[15]

## Unlocks

**TRACTION CONTROL** is a power-up in Does Not Commute. Sold by Crazy Bob's, this addition at the bottom of the car increases driver control, and can make the car drive in circles without drifting or skidding.

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#### **When NOT to use TRACTION CONTROL:**

* The car you are driving is SLOW and can't drift or leave any significant tire marks on the road because remember, TRACTION LOWERS YOUR SPEED (very slightly), so you don't want a already SLOW car to be SLOWER (the slightly smoother acceleration will not really reduce time). TURBO is more efficient with slow cars,
* If it's NOT necessary to use it TRACTION, like when you are on the 2nd car and the 1st car doesn't even go near you and your car is slow, then there is a ZERO need for TRACTION in this case.

#### Radio commercial

**"Ladies and gentlemen, let me ask you something.
Is your car slipping all over the gosh darn road?
Do you wish you had more control?
Well, come on down to "Crazy Bob's"!
We got tires, we got wheels and we even got hubcaps, but most importantly ladies and gentlemen, we got TRACTION CONTROLLL!
You see, when you get your hands on some TRACTION CONTROLLL!
You control the car like it's your best friend, the car becomes your best buddy on the road.
Y-Y-You together and your driving, y-y-your going in a straight line, for ONCE, a straight line!
So kids, come on down to "Crazy Bob's" upgrade emporium!
Learn to drive like a champ!
With TRACTION CONTROLLL!
Traction control is intended for entertaining purposes only and is not affected to treatment or care of any disease or ailment."**</noinclude>

### TURBO VS. TRACTION

None are actually that better than the other. Both come with their disadvantages and advantages. Though TRACTION may be slightly better than TURBO because TRACTION may lower your speed, but it reduces the rate at which you crash, since you are not skidding all over the place, while TURBO may give you high amounts of turbo-fueled action, you may have to rewind 8 times before you stop hitting that one building you keep drifting into. It doesn't matter that much about how fast you can get there, but how many times you REWIND. REWIND is a button in the top left hand corner of the screen and it costs 1 second to rewind, so as previously stated, if you rewind 8 times, you would've wasted 8 precious seconds on crashing, making TRACTION the slightly better option, but TURBO would be better if you know how to manage turbo-fueled cars.

## Hidden Time Bonuses

### Near the under-construction building.

* Okay, this isn't really a hidden time bonus, but from what I've seen on Youtube, not many people see this one. This a 10+  time bonus. This one is placed between two buildings and one of them is covering the 10+time bonus. These two buildings are next to the under-construction building. The most suitable car to get this time bonus is Mr. Olsen because he drives a moped which is a very slim motorcycle, making it easier to access the area to this time bonus. Other cars can get it, but it takes a couple of tries before a sedan (or a garbage/pickup truck can achieve sliding into that area without crashing.

### A Secret Area: SMASH HIT

You may have heard of the game SMASH HIT (wiki here), a game of which you destroy everything with balls, or at least what you can destroy. This area offers 2 20+   time bonuses which gives you 40 seconds in total. The path to get to this area is when you drive to the Beach, when you reach the last row of roads, turn left and continue until you reach SMASH HIT, grab the 2 20+time bonuses and leave and proceed to the next level. This is best retrieved by Clark Jensen because he's the last car and is the one that can benefit the most from it because it gives you more time on the next level, due to Clark being the last car. Others can get this but it's better if you save those time bonuses for the next level.[1] It also avoids taking long loops (for other cars), and crashing, because the map won't scroll there until you drive Clark Jensen out of The City.

#### Secret Radio Music

* If you're on the menu of the game and scroll the red line on the last set of roads before the next checkpoint, you will discover a hidden song (technically). This gets a different achievement of discovering a hidden radio song. The song is actually one of the soundtracks to the game *Smash Hit*. This one, in particular, goes for the first stage of Checkpoint 2 in *Smash Hit*. This also happens to line up with the hidden "Smash Hit" area, which is also aligned with the last set of roads. This may be a hint to finding the hidden area in this level.
* The music, which depicts the first stage of Checkpoint 2 of *Smash Hit*, may also be a hint to use Clark Jensen, who is the first driver of the Beach.

The hidden area of SMASH HIT, above the last set of roads (Without the  time bonuses)The cars (Clark Jensen, Charles Schneider, Mrs. Clemons, Ben Womack) heading up the last set of roads.The cars driving around in SMASH HIT.The cars leaving the last set of roads.The cars crowding the entrance to the Beach.Does Not Commute Easter Egg - 40 Seconds BONUS!Clark leaving for SMASH HIT.Clark at the entrance to the Beach.The music for the area on the last set of roads.The original Smash Hit Checkpoint 2 soundtrack.Rough approximation of the track.The achievement.Julia in SMASH HIT. Note that half the hidden area cannot be seen because the map will not fully scroll there, unless Clark Jensen is the current driver.
## Gallery

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