Just noticed the effect of the nerf...

[video=youtube;kW3lkRmY2iA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW3lkRmY2iA[/video]

 

Michael, what I mean is that when you turn on thermal vision, it just makes a black-and-white image of what you see. In daytime it's darker, in nighttime it is brighter. Look at the terrain in Alpine or the patterns on mechs, and you'll see what I mean. If anything, the darker colors on mechs should appear brighter, because they absorb more of the sunlight and thus are hotter. Where it becomes thermal is simply that mechs glow white when they get hot, and weapons are bright white. That's about it. At least as far as I can tell.