Replaced the previous post because people were focusing on how I phrased how long smoke has been meta lol.
What is the aversion to using thermal sights? Smoke has been very strong for a long time now, yet I haven't seen a lot of people using them? I'm about to a thermal to my loadout and see how it works out. I'll report back my findings at some point 🫡.
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1) They are banned in ranked as well as professional/competitive play. So the higher end of the skill ladder have no need to get used to introducing them to their gameplay. Or anyone who plays ranked really. it doesn’t pay to learn to rely on them when the competitive mode doesn’t even allow them at all.
2) Visual fucking recoil! It’s so bad on all of the thermals compared to their non thermal meta same zoom scopes
3) There are other ways that are pretty effective at beating smokes. Combat scout is starting to see a big uptick recently, especially with mouse players. It’s rare you see a smoke, but didn’t see someone enter it or pop it, and it’s also common for a mouse player to smoke themselves in close quarters fights to remove AA.
Combat scout allows you to put a bullet or two into them as they pop the smoke, or before you smoke, and then have full vision of them via the highlighted red dot. Without any of the downsides of having a thermal on your gun for all of the non smoke engagements you’ll face that game.
I’ve actually been encountering it more and more, especially in last few zones.
Tbh, I have a special end game class, consisting of:
* Radiated (highly recommend)
* Restock (for smokes)
* SZ thermal (or smth like that) on primary. Recoil is not that bad and it’s a great sight. I just smoke myself or enemy team, and they dont know where theyre being killed from lol
Because thermal scopes SUCK
Insane recoil
Visibility is ass
With how fast movement is and everyone slide canceling 100mph with buildings/cover every 5 feet, good luck tracking anything with a thermal scope
The only time they may be useful, is if the final 1-2 circles ends up on an open area where people are spamming smokes to move around
For me – the added visual recoil, and I just don’t like the look of the majority of them
I do pretty good just spraying and praying into smokeÂ
For me its the visual recoil. Also you can’t see through the the gun smoke from your own gun and explosions from grenades clusters and airstrikes. So in alot of situations it’s actually a hinderance.
Slap that thermal on your DG and you are good to go. 0 recoil gg
Where is ranked so finally get rid of thermal, one shots and so on…
not available in ranked, and I won’t bother creating separate loadouts for the casual quad
Recoil tends to be bad
I use the holotherm on the SVA as a “late game” option with double time, irradiated, quick fix and combat scout.
Real good at shooting through smoke spam in late game circles plus combat scout pings allows for team shooting.
A friend who plays on MK sometimes runs the microtherm on his smg so he can smoke himself and play around that