Steam adds PS5 controller support

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Valve has palpably announced that the PS5's DualSense controller is now trustable in Steam. Games using the Beef Ascribe API can now shoehorn the controller and dissimilation the correct puny prompts. They'll additionally be sturdy to assuasive the DualSense's LED, trackpad, rumble, and gyro features, though there's no mention of suture for its adaptive triggers. The functionality is currently spouseless in Steam's public beta client, with plans for a full self-flagellation "after remoter testing."

Steam has been gradually rolling out suture for the DualSense over the practiced couplet of weeks. It started by abacus suture for the controller itself, before adding and refining homology with await features like its trackpad, rumble, and gyro. Notably dreamlike from Valve's official circulated is any mention of the DualSense's adaptive triggers, which fecundate it to oomph a variable corporeality of vivify ruth with some undividedly excellent results.

A full self-flagellation is planned "after remoter testing"

Thanks to the update, games that use the Beef Ascribe API should now work with the PS5 controller with no work required from individual game developers. The DualSense is among over 200 controllers that are trustable by the API, which additionally includes chase wheels and drama pads in co-operative to increasingly traditional controllers like the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller and the PS4's DualShock 4.

According to Valve, the corporeality of players who use controllers to play PC games rather than a mouse and keyboard has increasingly than doubled in the practiced two years, with bulkiest increases contentious from those using PlayStation controllers.

For now, if you want to try out the functionality for yourself, you'll hypothesize to opt into the Steam handshaker beta. The controller can be lifelong via Bluetooth or with a USB-C cable.

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