THIS IS A TOOL-ASSISTED SPEEDRUN. 
 
IWAD: The Ultimate Doom
Map: E1M1
Skill: Ultra-Violence
Category: UV-Respawn
Exe: XDRE 2.22a
Time: 0:18.80
Author: almostmatt1

Comments: A couple of years ago I noticed my 18.97 UV-Max demo synced in UV-Respawn most of the way through the demo and I thought it wouldn't take too much effort to nudge the ending a little to get an 18 second respawn demo. Luckily I was correct, this only took a couple of hours. It's identical to my UV-Max demo up until tic 460 (0:13.17) after which I totally rebuilt, so most of the hard work was done, and the routing too of course. I didn't expect to find a couple of low-hanging optimisations around door and wall collisions that quite easily saved a further 6 frames, I expected to just get 18.97 honestly, so getting a lower decimal was nice. That max demo isn't one of my most optimised but it is one of my personal favourites, I can't believe it's been 5 years already since I did it. It's definitely quite improvable but with an extra 5 years of experience I still don't think we'll see a 17.

This also, somehow, appears to be the first UV-Respawn TAS in Ultimate Dooms history. 
