Star Citizen 2024 HOSAS Setup - Virpil Constellation Alpha Prime + WarBRD 

Added exported control mappings file to the description

I had a T16000 too back in the day, bought for star citizen, but 4 of it's 7 axis had drift in 6 month, so I went nuclear and went directly for virpil, best decision of my gamer's life

Super sick video, man. Really enjoy your stuff and it's clear how much thought you put into the production quality of your content.

Wow what a video! Use of timing and music choices gave goose bumps. Nice work man!

Great video man! Ill be looking out for more!

Thanks for an informative video without filler.

Very well done. The Alpha Prime has some really cool yet complex trigger combinations. Welcome to club Virpil from TM. I imagine its life altering. For mounting, I recommend MonsterTech for the most modularity later. I love that you are using them on a lap desk to counter the extra height issue mounts will add a different feel due to ergonomics. Great vid!

Hey man! I subscribed just because of an error. I thought I seen 562.000 subscribers instead of your 563 now subscribers and said this dude deserves it.

I went crazy and bought dual sticks and Virpils foot pedals. Also setup my left virpil with mouse for FPS. Virpil make amazing products. And great video, you gave me few ideas to try out.

insane setup very cool

Highly recommend getting the z-axis mount from virpil for the left stick to make it a true throttle. It's a game changer.

Thanks for the video, I'm tempted to buy a set myself now due to this vid. How does the transition to non-ship fps work however? since I do a lot of on foot game content like bunkers, parcels etc.

I like the idea of left Z as speed limiter control, especially when I have joystick Z adapter extension. I'll add that to my config. Other than that I use buzzkiller config with pedals and that works really well for me.

I have the same sticks but I can’t get your mapping to work after importing it, it’s like all the bindings army lining up

I've been using Alpha Prime + WarBRD HOSAS since late December or early January but I got the Virpil Torq (t rudder helicopter style pedals) to use with them. These pedals only provide two inputs but you can keep your legs more stationary and heals planted on the ground, don't have to worry about spinning office chairs, and it takes up less of a footprint under the desk. I'm was initially going to do roll on the pedals but ended up going with forward/reverse on them instead and strafe up/down left/right on the left stick and roll on left Z axis. Honest I've put most of my time into arena commander and don't even really have all my controls set correctly for PU. Desk or chair mounts are most certainly a must and I think desk is an obvious choice for me. I like to move the sticks further down the desk and out out of my way when I'm not using them but pull them in close when I'm ready to play. I'd also rather have the cables connected to my desk than the chair. Initially I did something that I thought was crazy but had seen other people on forums try and put the soft center cosmos cams in my left stick but the no center cosmos cams in my aiming stick. Honestly one of the main reasons I did this was because I was unsure what I wanted and wished to try both cams but I think I'm going to keep the setup now so it provides a little extra help finding the center and making sure my ship doesn't drift but keeps the smooth pitch and yaw aiming. I also tried the heavy springs briefly just last night but I don't think I like the feel as much and switched them back.

Always interesting to see how people set up their sticks.

what is the name of the sticks you have in the videos HOSAS.. I would love to get the same ones.

the only thing i learned with this video is that i need a lapboard too for my hosas setup

Handling those sticks with care 🖤

I’m with you on the yaw on twist. It just makes sense. My mind just doesn’t associate twist with roll…

Hey @josh Baker How do I load these control? Have had issues with my hotas and sorta gave up on using them and want to take a crack at it again.

My dream setup

When I can't find a key bind category for a key that's known, I simply rebind the known key to something else. A warning will appear that tells you the key is already bound elsewhere along with the category for the original binding.

I'm working on a 6dof flight yoke that essentially combines the functionality of a sim racing wheel and a standard flight yoke. I wanted to be able to make something that's compact, intuitive, precise, and able to be used with other games and the flight yoke style seems the most promising. All rotation axis will be mapped to physically tilting the yoke where you want to rotate, so there is a 3 axis gimbal with sensors at the center of the yoke. Strafing will be mapped to a thumbstick on the yoke, though I may test ways of physically translating the yoke up-down/left-right/forward-backward as a way to input translation. My current idea for forward and backward acceleration is to use analog triggers, but I'm not sure about that yet. Eventually I will load up the grips with tons of bottoms and wheels, but I haven't finalized the layout of those. Would love to hear thoughts on whether this sounds practical or stupid.

I've been using the dual stick Thrustmaster's you showed for years and yep, the twist rotation on one stick suddenly and sporadically now has input causing one to be unusable. I too have been eyeing the Virpil setup, but have been told by many dual stick is more for combat and a bit of racing, but a single stick with a HOTAS is more ideal for say cargo running (SCU, data, and personnel), which I'm mainly interested in. So I'm going to look at making the switch to using a HOTAS, but excellent coverage of these and they are gorgeous to look at!

would these be good for small hands would you say?

So i just got this setup and my brain is hurting trying to map this out.

how much did this setup cost? or HOTAS in general? im thinking of getting one

You should tighten the clutch damper on the left stick so it stays where you put it. Then change the key bind for the left stick Y to be throttle forward abs. - acting like a traditional throttle where it’s 0-100% forward thrust. You’ll have to bind reverse abs to something else (I used one of the levers on the back - feels nice squeezing it when landing etc). But now you have the best of both HOTAS and HOSAS functions. Clutch damper is new on the prime’s that makes this possible.

Just curious, but didnt subcomponent targeting come out in 3.23 and 2 month ago would have been evocati...

I'm assuming you can turn the rgb off for the alpha prime sticks?

HIGHLY recommend trying out some headtracking with TrackIR or something comparable, it seriously ups the immersion factor to a crazy degree..nothing compares to being able to freely look around while flying.

Thanks for the video and the profile but I would like someone to upload a profile with hosas + vpc ace for starcitizen

I recently switched my roll and yaw and prefer it the same way. I'd use the clutch on the left Y axis and forget cruise control entirely. Nice setup though!

Does this have more/different buttons than the standard Constellation Alphas?

How do you import the binds into VPC?

if you put them on the sides of your chair seems to work well

Why dont u use the triger switches? if u not sure open software click botton 1 change it to swtich save done!!! i use mine for missle mode and q mode but will haveb to switch 1 for mastermodes if i ever come back lol

Does Virpil have a version of these sticks without the silly RGB lights?

Feel like all the investment I did on my virpils were a mistake since mastermodes makes too arcade the fligth mode, no longer need a space sim joystick since any xbox pad will be a better choice

If you think that your inputs are 'weird', you need to see mine. I roll on left X axis with a Z extension. It works though as I'm in the top 20 for racing ;)

get the Z mount for the left stick

What is your computer setup? for a smooth running game

Waiting for my Virpils to show up, almost everything was on backorder but getting into the "4-6 week sweet spot" I keep hearing backorders tend to ship in. I am more a large ship and "industrial" pilot, so decided to stay with the HOTAS setup, with pedals. Using a Logitech x56 HOTAS now. The initial quality was OK, but shocked by how quickly, with fairly light use, they are degrading.

Shlick.

your left stick bindings are super weird to me, up and down on the Y axis? madness, my up and down are the twist (i have the 45 degree adaptor so twist up is up and down is down) y axis is strafe forward back and strafe left right is x axis,

ironicly i have never used sticks i do like this video as i looking to dip into starcitizens not sure i want to use 2 sticks as i think with the memoryzing and only seeing with 1 eye can be a little tricky if i cant see my seccond stick in view i do like the stick though reminds me of the bottom layout almost of a F15 might want to get 1 stick though see if i will like it or not and maybe if money alows me i willget a seccond stick love the video though

You got an export of your config?

link to product?

Shake and bake

Could you save a file of the mapped buttons so we can copy ? Please. Not to insult your intelligence, but you can find this at. Live, user, client, 0, controls and mappings

what stick are thease? looking super good quality

What I find annoying you pay so much money only get one flight stick.. even the ones meant to be dual flight sticks sell them separately imagine the wasted potential on SELLING THEM TOGEATHER

They should make space combat as simple as possible. No DCS level "realism" or energy management.

Wouldn't waste my Virpils on Star Citizen, or my old dual thrustmasters, kb+m is good enough

Lol why release a video for a broken non existent game ?

Shake and bake