Thermal Vision is a Gameplay Mechanic in Fortnite that was introduced in Season 3. It highlights players and certain objects in the environment, enabling longer-distance and unobscured viewing of them.
Functionality[]
Thermal Vision works by highlighting players or certain objects in the environment, by contrasting them greatly with the background. Thermal Vision will either highlight a player warm colors, such as orange and red on a dark blue backdrop, or it will highlight them white or grey, on a dark backdrop. This allows the objects to contrast and be seen easier.
Thermal Vision works through transparent objects, such as damaged or under construction structures. This allows players to be highlighted and identified easier through them. Thermal Vision also works through fog and smoke, so things like The Storm's obstructing purple mist, or the smoke from a Smoke Grenade will be ignored with Thermal Vision.
However, Thermal Vision can make it difficult to gauge distance, as the backdrop created by Thermal vision is bland and similar, meaning an object that is large and far away, may appear similar to one close and smaller. On top of this, Thermal Vision can make it difficult to identify Targets. For example, a player may attack an AI such as a IO Guard instead of an enemy player, as it is very difficult to distinguish between them when they are highlighted the same color.
Things that are highlighted with Thermal Vision include:
- Opponents (Enemies, AIs etc.), and Friendly Players
- Vehicles
Items[]
Thermal Vision can be applied with various items.
| Name | Icon | Rarity | Category | Description | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thermal Scoped Assault Rifle |  |
Rare Epic Legendary |
Assault Weapon | An Assault Weapon that applies thermal vision when scoped in. | Season 4 |
| Suppressed Sniper Rifle |  |
Epic Legendary |
Sniper Rifle | A Spy Games upgrade of the Suppressed Sniper Rifle that applies thermal vision when scoped in. | Chapter 2: Season 2 |
| Thermal Fish |  |
Legendary | Consumable | A Consumable Item that applies thermal vision when consumed. | Chapter 2: Season 4 |
| Thermal Taffy |  |
Common | Consumable | A Consumable Item that applies thermal vision when consumed. | Chapter 2: Season 4 |
| Night Hawk |  |
Exotic | Pistol | An Exotic version of the Scoped Revolver that applies thermal vision when scoped in. | Chapter 2: Season 5 |
| Amban Sniper Rifle |  |
Mythic | Sniper Rifle | A Sniper Rifle that appliesthermal vision when scoped in. | Chapter 2: Season 5 |
| Titan Tank (Cannon) |   |
Common | Vehicle | A Vehicle with a cannon that applies thermal vision when scoped in. | Chapter 3: Season 2 |
| Huntmaster Saber's Thermal Rifle | |
Mythic | Assault Weapon | A Mythic version of the Thermal Scoped Assault Rifle that also that applies thermal vision when scoped in. | Chapter 3: Season 2 |
| Thermal DMR |  |
Common Uncommon Rare Epic Legendary Mythic |
Marksman Rifle | A Marksman Rifle that applie thermal vision when scoped in, which can be tured on and off. | Chapter 4: Season 3 |
| Diamond's Thermal DMR | |
Mythic | Marksman Rifle | A Mythic version of the Thermal DMR that also applies vision when scoped in, which can be tured on and off. | Chapter 4: Season 4 |
| Thermal Optic |  |
N/A | Weapon Mod | A Weapon Mod that can be apllied to various Moddable Weapons. | Chapter 5: Season 2 |
| Save the World | |||||
| Neon Sniper Rifle |  |
Sniper Rifle | Epic Legendary |
Sniper Rifle with a scope that can detect enemies through walls. | Season 3 |
History[]
Chapter 3: Season 2[]
Update v20.00[]
- Changed Thermal color from Black and White to Blue and Orange.
Trivia[]
- Players using the Predator's Cloaking Device are invisible to thermal vision.