Clearly a passionate RTS lover like me. I can't change your mindset but I have hope that CoH3 will make you reconsider your pessimism. About your ranks I can only say one thing, take a more casual approach.
The timestamp you have doesn't exactly say next year, but seeing from the roadmap image that MP stuff is being revealed in November makes me hopeful that they will let us test the build then(or sooner).
I agree with GiaA. Snipers give flavour to the game and you mostly see them in high level of play. Average coh players will have a game without building snipers and that's fine. Hope relic won't fix something that isn't broken(CoH3).
It worked from the design pov, people didnt complain even if wehr had the most indirect fire.
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Snipers..wether you like them or not, are still viable and part of the franchise. Rewarding or frustrating depending on which side of the stick you are on, in the end it all comes down to the players skill level. I just hope every faction gets a sniper, as I saw brits didnt have one in the alpha and that has me concerned. I feel COH1 and COH2 messed up with the sniper not being an option for every faction. Why wouldn't you give every faction the same tools? I don't want to counter the sniper with gimmick units, please..