Dualsense haptics and Playstation icons displaying without wired connection

[Nipple]

Yesterday while playing the game, my Dualsense controller just worked with haptic feedback, squeezy triggers and the game showed playstation icons on screen without me having to plug the controller in at all (usually controller has to be connected via USB to acheive this). Tried again today and its back to the old Xbox icons and no haptics... How did this happen??? Anyone had this happen before? As far as I know I hadnt done or changed anything.

[Zappy]

Originally posted by Nipple:

- my Dualsense controller just worked with haptic feedback, squeezy triggers and the game showed playstation icons on screen without me having to plug the controller in at all -

I don't think that the DualSense supports HD rumble/haptic feedback over Bluetooth (it uses a different wireless technology on PlayStation 5), but "basic" rumble works, and both adaptive triggers and DualSense button prompts are normal for this game whether wired or wireless.

Originally posted by Nipple:

- Tried again today and its back to the old Xbox icons and no haptics... -

Are you using DS4Windows or some other "DualSense-to-XInput" emulator? If so, what happened yesterday was that Steam/the game managed to "capture" the real DualSense before the XInput emulator could hide it.

If you want adaptive triggers and DualSense button prompts, simply disable DS4Windows/the XInput emulator.

If that doesn't fix it, then select Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart in your Steam library, click on the gamepad icon on the right to open Steam Input's configurator, and either...
- Make sure that Steam Input is disabled for this game, or...
- If Steam Input is enabled, make sure that the layout uses the game's "game actions" instead of emulating Xbox buttons. (E.g. have Cross bound to "Jump" rather than an Xbox "A".) You can change the "Current Button Layout" option to "Recommended" > "Official Layout for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - Official Configuration" to accomplish this.