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Freedom would be one thing.
 - Noone on the team will stop you from playing online [vs. ZDaemon and Skulltag].
 - There is no global ban list, each server has its own banlist (server chains may share a banlist though) so if you are banned from servers, it's your job to deal with their administrators, the team does not have a ban list that has to be followed by server owners [vs. ZDaemon].
 - You can modify it freely (source code wise) [vs. ZDaemon and Skulltag].
 - You can look at the source code [vs. ZDaemon and Skulltag].
 - You can host your own personal master server [vs. ZDaemon (but not Skulltag since I created my own Master Server for it)].
 - You can do whatever you want with your server, you could ban all cheaters you could allow only cheaters. [vs. mostly ZDaemon and partly Skulltag]

We are also open to opinions you may have also.

A few other features that Odamex offers over the other engines include, but are definitely not limited to, downloading wads directly from the server, on-the-fly Wad changing (so a server can run two wads back to back and your client will change the wad instead of you having to switch servers), and theoretical support for up to 255 players in one server.

And these are just some of the things Odamex does NOW at point 0.4.1. New experience enhancing features are added to Odamex regularly while preserving the essence of the original game.

Odamex looks to shape and enhance the experience AROUND Doom to make it more enjoyable to the player rather than to change the unique core gameplay that Doom presents a player with.