How? He can still see through smoke. While I don't think they should've nerfed his rifle directly, he's definitely still viable.
We have to consider how the damage actually works. Glaz's rifle, the OTS-03, does 120 damage, according to stats in game. Level 1 armor operators have a damage resistance, when you shoot a level 1 armored operator point blank in the chest cavity with Glaz's rifle, he won't receive 100% of the damage. The resistance increases as you go up armor levels, and when you count rook's armor. Rook's armor also increases the ability to go into a DBNO state. Glaz is a long-range operator, who is ideal on a specific number of maps, mostly plane, hereford, and house. After about 50-60m, his damage drops from 120, to 65. Take that into account on the fact that the operators have damage resistance thanks to their armor, it can take about 2-3 shots at chest level to simply down someone.
This was before the NERF.
After the nerf, his damage is 85-80. After 60m it drops to 65. Glaz will no longer one shot anyone every again, which isn't ideal considering he is using a loving sniper rifle, and it should only one shot at close range. People are bitching about his optic sight and nothing else, but Ubisoft nerfed his rifle and now he'll be chosen less often, as he is no longer as effective in CQC.
Like what? The only new bug I've noticed is the ACTION COMPLETED thing.
Servers are still wacked, which was always game breaking. Black Beard's shield outlasts its breaking animation. For instance, when you break his rifle shield, it'll still technically be there for two seconds after it breaks. It means if you're not accurately spraying at his head, he'll kill you around the corner no matter what. uPlay is still broken with things not loading properly, and squading up and NAT Types are pretty much RNG. I've experienced this NAT Type bullstuff. Whenever I start the game, i'll be stuck with any of the three NAT types, and I can change it by restarting the game. forgetass brazilian players can join EUS servers and wreck house thanks to ping advantage, and there's no fix.