In the doc file that @Keofox added, he talked about how players complained that snipers had problems because of the other weapons including smg, were getting the same range as said long range weapons. That they were thinking on adapting all automatic fire. that basically means a nerf. But in reality, all engagements in enlisted take place from 0 to 100 meters. Plus, we have two basic game modes. Either defending an objective or attacking. Players have been choosing automatic fire more because of this reason. you always need to cap. When you are attaking you are going to be in close quarters since you gotta go to the objective, therefore you are going to be around 10+ foes and you need weapons to deal with that menace. When you are defending you need to cap so you dont loose the objective. Obviously you are going to do worse with a sniper on your hands and the same applies for bolt actions or certain weapons that due to the design of the game, they get forgotten and overshadowed by later unlocks. Something similar happened with semi autos when they realised that they were making bolt actions look bad. Then there is the fact that the sniper squad is a 5 man squad, meaning that when all you soldiers die you still make your team loose 12 tickets, cause thats how the game works. Instead of working on nerfing everyones progress in this game why not give these squads more capabilities. Maybe the oportunity to have certain cqb guns like there is in bfv or maybe allow more capabilities to the squad itself, like they were saying also, more ammo more specific perks or roles added to the snipers in the beggining. Lastly, this is the squad i hate seeing the most when im dead at 0 tickets and i get to see other players. And you realise that the dude that picked it up has 3 soldiers. 1 sniper, 1 engineer, 1 trooper. Probably just like i did when i started playing that i also used snipers, and thought the other squads members werent needed because they were giving out my position and getting in front of me. Its sort of infuriating they made the game work in a way where certain squads dont fit in to the gameplay and then they just think of nerfing other things that are working as intended.
Im not doing well in the fact that you grind like a hog and then 6 months later after a costy grind they decided everything needs a nerf. I wanna see what everyone else think about this. Also i would stick where they say this but, it got deleted from the reddit and i cant access it anymore