Katitof, the problem is the rus sniper team, and no, this is not assymetrical balance, if a sniper team have 2 member, this is pure overpowered imbalanded unit without his ridicolous sprint ability too... I know, you are a fanboy a little? bit, but the fact is fact, 2 member sniper is not good for the game, at all.
The USF without sniper, is a another story vs Ostheer, i feel bad this matchup too, but at least Ger sniper only 48hp, and not 2x48, you have twice better chance shoot down with a good flank, or frontal lmg - bar blob assault, and ostheer dont have button ablility, like russian, for counter the sniper hunter light vehicles, as M20... The snipers need his reliable counter, and i dont see other solution, only the counter snipe ability. Remember, the Coh1 was too both Opposing fronts faction his own dedicated counter snipe ability, Pe has AT HT focused fire, and Brits recon team snipe shoot. That was not the best, but at least, provide some soft counter. Now, in Coh2, i feel the one of the biggest problem, the not balanced sniper meta.
I know this, but this is a change of a level of making ZiS-3 and PaK40 or P4 and T34 completely equal.
One that will simply not happen.
Countersniping was obviously never intended to be part of the game as it was back in coh1(and despite all the prising it got, it still was a horrible thing to do as still, player with more snipers won).
You've completely ignored that I've said there are 2 new factions that are helpless equally against snipers and yet they somehow do it(actually, OKW can do pretty well with JLI or falls jumping out of buildings). Don't ask for countersniping being possible, because if it wasn't changed after 18 months, then it will not get changed. Don't use sniper against sniper, that is all.
And you definitely have pink glasses of nostalgia on right now. PE ATHT was as much counter to a sniper as AT nades were a counter to pershing-it simply didn't worked unless you were fighting player who was more braindead then AI, on top of this PE had just 3 men squads of extremely high reinforce, snipers were complete bane of them and still nothing was done to change it.
Same for reckon section, their marksmen ability was NOT a sniper counter, unless you were fighting a potato.
You simply had to be utter idiot to loose sniper to ATHT or reckon section.
Back in coh1 only vanila factions could reliably counter snipers, new factions were helpless, nothing really changed here.
Snipers never will be balanced, but they are not going anywhere so you might stop complaining.
Relic have addressed many many times that they will NOT balance snipers using their survivability, but using their firepower, so ger sniper survival and sov sniper survival will stay exasctly where they are. One is slightly more durable and can't be countersniped(why slightly? check DPS of allies and axis infantry to know why) and other shoots twice as fast.