Differences With Original
Although WON2 is a faithful recreation of the original WON service, it does have some important differences. There are currently no Authorization (or "Auth") servers to assign unique player IDs and enforce bans for cheating or other misbehaviors. Bans must be made by IP address, which limits the effectiveness of long term bans, and, if used aggressively, can result in banning innocent players. The Steamless CS Project has stated they are investigating possible solutions, although creating one appears to be very difficult, as the authentication protocol has never been made open source by Valve, just like the Masterserver protocol.
Another difference is that WON2 has a minority of servers outside of Europe. Fortunately for many of its users, over 90% of WON2's game servers run Counter-strike 1.5 and older versions.
WON2 has an inability to run mods that require features only available in Steam.
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