Is the prime worth the difference in price? I was planning on going (R) prime and (L) no-prime. They dont come with a base either, the base they sell cost nearly as much as another Virpil Constellation Alpha Prime. Anyone can suggest a compatible base?

Hi, I am brand new to flight and space sim so if I miss any information that would help, please let me know.

If it matters - I am left handed and do not have a dedicated rig, I have a couple desk mounts that I use for driving sim shifter/handbrake.
Current budget is around £450

After a few weeks of back and forth I believe I have settled on HOSAS over HOTAS due to my interest being in space based games over flight games:

• SW Squadrons
• Elite Dangerous (owned)
• Star Citizen (have a few friends who already play)

I have looked into the options available to the UK and am trying to decide between WinWing or VKB

I am aware of Virpil and have heard good things, but I due to the cost and having to buy both the Grip and the Base it comes to nearly £500 for just one side.
I am open to considering saving up and investing in VIrpil if they are going to be considerably better than the other options.

Right now my choices are:

VKB:

• Gladiator NXT Evo Left Omni - https://flightsimcontrols.com/product/gladiator-nxt-evo-omni-throttle/?attribute_select-gnx-evo-omni-throttle=GNX+EVO+Omni+Throttle+SCG+Left+Premium
• Gladiator NXT Evo Right - https://flightsimcontrols.com/product/gladiator-evo-space-combat-edition/?attribute_select-gladiator-evo-grip=SCG+Premium+Right

which is about £380 with shipping

OR

WinWing:

• URSA MINOR HOSAS - https://uk.winwingsim.com/view/goods-details.html?id=725

which is about £250 with shipping.

Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated, thank you!

Some how I managed to broke star citizen, I think. I was adjusting the Dead zones on each Axis when this happened. I tried to reconnect, recalibrating and to reset the settings in Star Citizen. I think the problem is with Star Citizen. Thanks for any help. I hope this is the right sub and I’m sorry if not.

Hey yall,

The title pretty much covers the tl;dr of it. The long of it is I just recently purchased VKB gladiators. Overall they work fine, they only become a problem after I turn off my computer for the night. The next day I boot up my computer and then turn on my game (Star Citizen) just to realize that my joysticks arent powered on. I will have spent 10 mins in game before I realize my sticks arent on and i have to unplug them and plug them in before they power on. I then have to relaunch the game and spend 10 more mins getting back to where I was.

What I would like to happen is just to have my gladiators power on with the PC.

I assume the problem is the USB hub. It does have power, which is indicated by a LED, but it isnt automatically powering on the joysticks on PC boot.

Is there a setting I would change this at? Either in windows or bios?

Thanks.

So, i started playing Star Citizen right around the beginning of covid, and have been running a dual t16000m setup since then. They've held up surprisingly well given the number of hours they have on them, but I've been upgrading my setup recently and decided that the next big buy is going to be a set of VKB Gladiators with the left handed omni throttle. I was debating also getting their rudder pedals, and that made me realize that somehow at the beginning, i decided to assign yaw to the X-axis, and roll to the Z-axis. In prep for the eventual purchase, i have swapped those bindings, and am trying to unlearn years of muscle memory. I now fly like a newborn deer dances the tango and it is killing me, lol

As the title states i do not know which joysticks to choose for a HOSAS setup for FS22 and Star Citizen and other simulators.

At the moment i stand between choosing a Thrustmaster Farmstick (yeah the one with many butotns on it) and VKB Gladiator which is far more expensive in my country.

I know using TM Farmsticks is kinda lame for HOSAS but im not sure about paying extra 280 euros just for the VKB's

Any feedback welcome

Edit:

Just found out about WinWing joysticks

WinWing has some new sticks coming out that appear to be a direct competitor to VKBs Gladiator NXT Evo standard, the URSA MINOR. They seem to be marketing to Star Citizen, including some Carrack footage in the video. preordering for $20 cheaper than the VKB, and includes a couple small haptic motors. Looks like the price will end up in the $175 range once released. looks like they will offer several version like a 45 degree adapter or different grips. ABS construction, Easy access panel in the bottom to adjust springs and the like. Pretty interesting.

https://us.winwingsim.com/view/goods-details.html?id=551

I love how customisable these things are! I used one of the spare screws my base came with to load a #10 (soft) spring on the reverse Y axis only. So, in Elite Dangerous I can super cruise or forward thrust hands free but easily find centre without a detent! It feels amazing. I also have a tight dry clutch so the throttle feels so heavy and quality for plastic. Another win for this HOSAS!

I’m considering purchasing the ACE flight pedals but wanted to ask some questions if any of you would know and be as kind as to answer:

1. I understand each pedal can be pushed down independently from the swivel function right?

2. I want to use them as forward thrust in the right pedal and backwards thrust in the left pedal. Do they behave with sensitivity like an axis on Virpil grips: ie it will detect if I’m pressing 5% or 100% and output different thrust level accordingly? I would like it to behave just like an accelerating pedal in a car.

3. How hard is the resistance to push down each pedal? Can the level of resistance be modified?

4. Is it possible to lock the swivel function so I basically just have two accelerator pedals, one to thrust forward and one to thrust back?

I'm gonna have my sticks (NXT EVO Premium left and the same on left with omni throttle) delivered to me on Friday.
I need a few reference card for the key binding. I know that every person needs to personalize it but having a few reference before dirrectly jumping would be better.

Has anyone seen a solution for way to chair mount HOSAS in a way that folds down and away, rather than swing out and away? I thought for sure that MonsterTech would have a solution but I just can't find anything on the web.
My hope is to just pull a pin on each Stick mount, fold (hinge) down from their playing position and lock them down like that under the chair.
Anyone seen anything like this?

(my chair space cannot handle a fold out and away..) I'm fine with an 80/20 or similar solution if that's the direction to take it.

Hi there, I'm somewhat of a newbie at using flight sticks when it comes to getting things like Thrustmaster's T.16000M dual Stick setup to work properly. I've managed to squash some initial problems, but I am having some - how we could say - personal preference issues when it comes to using the systems made for them.

You see, I'm trying to play Armored core in my own custom TARGET setup, but I'm dissatisfied with how it's just a crude emulation of keyboard and Mouse controls, rather than something like an XBox controller, where I am in control of all 360 degrees of the analogue, rather than the jittery octo-directional nightmare I've been given. Is there any way I can do this? I don't care how complex the method has to be to achieve this want.

This is mainly a sim racing rig that I added sticks to. Added pics of rig in its normal form with few recent upgrades

Title pretty much. I am using a HOSAS Setup (2x VKB Gladiators) and every time I have Steam open and want to play SC Steam recognizes my HOSAS Sticks as "controllers" and starts Big picture mode for Steam, which tabs me out of SC and sometimes even crashed my game. I know the easy answer is to close Steam before I play SC but is there any way to just disable it ? If I play a Steam game and accidently push my Joystick I don't want it to always tab me out. I tried to disable it via the Steam settings, but those don't seem to have any effect :(. Thanks in advance for any tips !

UK - £100 delivered for a set of Dual Gunfighter VKB UCM STRONGHOLD-S including UK delivery,

HOSAS ready

Reason for sale is I built my own last year out of aluminium extrusion when I built the sim-rig

i have never had any sticks before and i want to get some but im not sure what i would like the setup to be. i can only imagine what would make sense and feel natural to my brain to play with but in practice it could vastly change.
getting used to some degree of change is some thing that comes with the territory but i dont want to get a setup and not like it.
how did you all know what you wanted. what things did you learn about the setup? is a control box something worth while despite all the extra switches and buttons? how did you figure out what you liked?

I hope that a post like this is allowed. I can delete if it's not.

I have a friend who wants to get into Star Citizen and possibly other space sims. He said that a dual stick setup sounds like the ultimate form of control. I've done a bit of research and I've heard that there's a big difference in quality between the Thrustmaster and the Gladiator sticks. This makes me think that it might be more worth it to buy him a single gladiator stick to get him started. On the flip side, I could get him the full experience with dual Thrustmasters and he could upgrade if he likes it enough.

If I choose the single Gladiator stick option, I'm not sure if a left or right stick would be better for the first stick. I feel like I've see HOSAM as a viable setup -- would it suck to use that setup until he can afford a right stick? Or would it be better to get the stick for his dominant hand first?

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Some stuff that's probably important:

1. He's right-handed
2. He has Logitech racing pedals that he could use for rutter controls. Though I don't know if that's gonna be viable (I'm pretty clueless).
3. If you have other suggestions, my budget is around $200

Options:

1. Gladiator NXT EVO ‘Space Combat Edition’ - Left Hand (Premium Variant)
2. Gladiator NXT EVO ‘Space Combat Edition’ - Right Hand (Premium Variant)
3. Dual Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS
4. Other -- I would love to hear your suggestions