Hogwarts Legacy’s Unique PS5 DualSense Features Detailed In New Blog Post

Hogwarts Legacy releases this vacation for a number of platforms, however PlayStation 5 gamers will expertise further technical magic due to the sport’s suite of DualSense options.

A PlayStation Weblog put up revealed the alternative ways Hogwarts Legacy takes benefit of the controller’s haptic suggestions. For starters, spells sport particular person bodily button resistances and suggestions to make them really feel distinctive from each other. In a pleasant contact, these haptic results are remoted to the precise aspect of the controller to simulate wielding a wand in a single hand extra precisely. Hopefully, this function may be flipped to the opposite aspect of the gamepad in order that left-handed gamers can expertise the identical immersion. 

The DualSense mild bar shows numerous flash results for every spell, however it additionally radiates the colour of your chosen home. For the uninitiated, that’s purple for Gryffindor, inexperienced for Slytherin, yellow for Hufflepuff, and blue for Ravenclaw. 

The controller may also simulate sensations similar to crushing botany substances in potions class, deflecting and disintegrating incoming magic utilizing the defend spell Portico, and hovering the skies atop a brush or hippogriff. Hogwarts Legacy additionally leverages the PS5’s 3D audio to select up smaller sound results similar to a crackling hearth and different environmental sound cues.  

To study extra and watch further video clips of those options in motion, be sure you go to the PlayStation Weblog put up. Hogwarts Legacy doesn’t have a launch date, however it’s slated to reach someday this vacation. You’ll be able to play it on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. You’ll be able to watch an prolonged gameplay demonstration in March’s State of Play video right here.