Treyarch’s Community Manager Josh Torres, also known as FoxHoundFPS, confirmed that this was indeed a glitch. Thermal scopes are great for spotting far off enemies, so it must have been frustrating for this special scope to lose its effect. Read more: Cold War’s five best gunfight maps.This wasn’t the problem though, as the effect remained well after they had left the area, and persisted until they died. Batteries in my thermal died from blackopscoldwarĪs another Reddit user pointed out, while the thermal optic failed, they were in the radius of a Jammer.