seriously though, what was gimped? There's even code to help the sniper; homing rockets won't home in on snipers while grappled.
What changed?
There's another change that I don't remember, one helluva plasmabomb explosion effect with lightning and everything... when was that in there? I re-enabled it and tweaked it, it seems kinda cool. I'll post a video of it later, it at least expands the damage "bubble" of death visually.
But to the sniper, how was he gimped?