I know i was playing wid my buddie one time splitscreen and it looks like thermal is faster because it directly aims at the glowing person nothin more, but in my idea I think thermal is noobish, brings no skill everything is black except for the person? yep. maybe fast but no skill you dont see other people dat are known for using a sniper or other sniping clans using a thermal in clan battles like in eXiLe or OpTic videos or any other. thermal is alright but in actual real matches its pure noob no skill.