As someone who played a decent amount as sniper i can say the glint is ridiculously bad. Being a sniper your job is to be stealthy and pick people off from a distance, but when you are visible from one side of the map to other via glint you can chuck the stealth part out the window. In one round we played the entire mountain side was lit up with what looked like a row of decorative lights...it was just rows of sniper glint. Im OG and played Bf games from the beginning and one of the funnest parts of those games was sniper hunting, trying to find that guy who's causing havoc and ruining his day. Now they just stand out like a sore thumb :S