first off you asking for thermals to see trough smokes is only going to encourage people to sit even further back with a sniper rifle and play "high contrast immersion gaming"... i can already imagine how horrible gameplay would feel on the more open maps with 10-25 people sitting somehwere in a bush with thermals and the railgun....
secondly if DICE were to actually do this then they need to give everyone the option to add magnesium powder to their smokes as to make them appear like a white cloud to thermals... you know as a counter.
in the end this will hopefully never happen because it will not add any value to the moment to moment gameplay.
I don't think that's the case, none use smokes as defence from far away snipers, smokes are used in very close mass fight situation (especially in narrow spots).
With thermals you can't see the bullet drop so I don't think they would be used for far away sniping (also the optics are very short sighted).
It would be nice for medium to close aggressive sniping which is what I personally enjoy...
Magnesium powder smokes would be actually very cool and it's a great idea for balancing (maybe they could cover a smaller area or last less time than the vanilla smokes).
