Spicy Hot Take

And the plasma caster needs to be destroyable via explosive damage

The targeting pulse should definitely be consuming energy instead, that way it can last longer than five seconds and you can actually find a fucking boar when you need it. Just make it drain quickly so it canā€™t be abused.

I like your reasoning, butā€¦ Thatā€™d be hell of a nerf. I hate thermal vision as you canā€™t see much of the landscape. While in the movies it would be cool, for a human used to normal vision, playing like that feels non-native and would destroy the experience of the game.

Iā€™d would say though, target isolation and target scanning should put a marker on the minimap, just like pred spotting does