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* Different user interface depending on the used input mode
* Different user interface depending on the used input mode
* Gateway selection: Ability to manually select Gateway / server
* Gateway selection: Ability to manually select Gateway / server


==== International Path of Exile Steam Client changes from baseline ====
==== International Path of Exile Steam Client changes from baseline ====
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* Language support: Traditional Chinese only
* Language support: Traditional Chinese only
* Gateway selection: Fixed to Taiwan
* Gateway selection: Fixed to Taiwan


==== Tencent Mainland China Path of Exile Client changes from baseline ====
==== Tencent Mainland China Path of Exile Client changes from baseline ====
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** One free respec during campaign {{Citation needed}}
** One free respec during campaign {{Citation needed}}
** Planner for [[Passive skill|passive skill tree]] {{Citation needed}}
** Planner for [[Passive skill|passive skill tree]] {{Citation needed}}


==== Console clients changes from baseline ====
==== Console clients changes from baseline ====
* Language support: Uses console language if supported, with fallback to English. No in-game option to choose a language.
* Language support: Uses console language if supported, with fallback to English. No in-game option to choose a language.
* Mouse + keyboard input mode is not supported
* Re-binding controller buttons is not supported
* Gameplay differences:
* Gameplay differences:
** [[Blight (game mechanic)|Blight]] has ''significantly'' fewer monsters spawning (-50% for encounters in maps and -70% for blighted maps) to account for memory and performance issues.<ref name="ConsoleBlightNerf" />
** [[Blight (game mechanic)|Blight]] has ''significantly'' fewer monsters spawning (-50% for encounters in maps and -70% for blighted maps) to account for memory and performance issues.<ref name="ConsoleBlightNerf" />

Revision as of 06:13, 15 September 2023

It has been suggested that this article be merged into Path of Exile#Game clients.

Reason: This article is mostly duplicated information.

Proposed since August 23, 2023

Supported clients

Clients in this section are officially supported by GGG.

PC

The following PC clients are supported on Windows operating system only.

For the Standalone and Steam clients, the available servers and their approximate locations to choose from on the login screen are listed in the following table.

Available servers
Country Location
Australia Australia
Brazil Sao Paulo
France Paris
Germany Frankfurt
Great Britain London
Italy Milan
The Netherlands Amsterdam
Russia Moscow
Singapore Singapore
Thailand Thailand
United States California
United States Miami
United States Texas
United States Washington, D.C.


Console

The console versions of Path of Exile have the same User Interface as when using a controller on the PC client.

Consoles
Store page Console Initial launch
PlayStation PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5* March 2019
Xbox Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S August 2017

* There is currently no PlayStation 5 optimized version of Path of Exile


Features

Not all clients have the same features when comparing to the Path of Exile Standalone Client.

Path of Exile Standalone Client features (baseline)

  • Language support: Selectable from English, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese
  • Input modes: mouse + keyboard, controller
  • Different user interface depending on the used input mode
  • Gateway selection: Ability to manually select Gateway / server

International Path of Exile Steam Client changes from baseline

  • Gateway selection: Steam can use region locking which can prevent selecting certain gateways

Garena Taiwan Path of Exile Client changes from baseline

  • Language support: Traditional Chinese only
  • Gateway selection: Fixed to Taiwan

Tencent Mainland China Path of Exile Client changes from baseline

Console clients changes from baseline

  • Language support: Uses console language if supported, with fallback to English. No in-game option to choose a language.
  • Mouse + keyboard input mode is not supported
  • Re-binding controller buttons is not supported
  • Gameplay differences:
    • Blight has significantly fewer monsters spawning (-50% for encounters in maps and -70% for blighted maps) to account for memory and performance issues.[1]

References

  1. Natalia_GGG (Dec 16, 2019). "PS4 Content Update 3.9.0". Official Path of Exile Website. Retrieved Aug 23, 2023.