back on Star Wars Battlefront 2 they had classes you had to unlock using points from kills. Like the Bothnan spy, the wookie warrior, the jump trooper, clone commander, magnaguard, droideka, shadow trooper, and imperial officer. IF you got your kills using, say, the anti tanker engineer or rifleman you got to unlock these classes in the match. Maybe we can do that if you want to be a sniper.
Maybe when you spawn all scoped rifles are locked until you reach a certain number of kills so you only get to have the infantry variants. After all, in the real war nobody was actually issued scopes for their marksmen. When the massive numbers of men enlisted (or were drafted) into the war most of them were given minimal basic training with their weapons enough to know how to make it go bang, but not necessarily had the time to practice by the time they reached the front so that they were accurate enough shooters to be considered marksmen. If a rifleman wanted to use a scope he had to purchase one privately or a VERY SMALL HANDFUL might be issued one after proving themselves on the battlefield. Usually someone like a night sentry who would pick off enemy raiding parties or officers in the enemy trench etc.
This will deter any of the camping snipers who suck in particular from sitting three miles behind the fight and will make them move closer to use the rifle at least putting them in the vicinity of action. And if they learn how to shoot properly (which honestly you shoot MUCH better with iron sights than you do with a scope if you actually learn how to shoot. scopes are like training wheels, when you no longer need them you’ll never want them back again) then they can have their precious scopes. NO sniper variants. NO marskman variants. NO telescopic weapons until they have proven they can handle them in game.
As to whoever mentioned monte grappa, if you’re on offense the amount of situations in which a sniper rifle is effective are still next to none. I’m not debating using snipers on defense, that doesn’t even matter on defense. You have an unlimited number of spawns and all you have to do is kill the attackers however you see fit. It’s so much easier. As ATTACKER on the other hand, especially on monte grappa operations you have the church spawn and the sector after that and then sniper rifles are no longer effective weapons. you have two fortress guns with underground bunkers (and I don’t care if you had a rail gun, you aren’t shooting through the mountainside through the concrete and getting a headshot unless you’re hacking, so snipers are useless there) and you have a cave inside the mountain paired with the first fortress gun (so again, on this sector snipers are completely useless. can’t shoot through a mountain). Then on the triple objective sector after that, like I said one of those objectives is a bunker with a fortress gun. The second objective is down below by the other side of the canyon but it has a bunker that the other team at THAT objective sits in, and you can’t snipe them as the are A underground and B in a bunker. The only objective you might do better with a sniper rifle that you couldn’t necessarily do with any other weapon is to sit on the top of the second fortress gun and snipe downhill at objective C.
When clearing the bunkers you can use literally any gun. The Cei Riggoti is a good one for medics, any SMG or shotgun, and pretty much any LMG is good. Snipers? I mean if you’re going to bayonet someone sure, but SMGs have those too AND you can actually effectively shoot them. And as for moving from the sector with the first fortress gun and the second fortress gun? The part where the enemy team sits on top of the bunker above ground and makes it into a killzone? easy. HE mortars work great. HE mortars and using semi auto rifles for cover fire. Heck even LMGs are great for moving. Or you could flank them in 360 degrees. But sniper rifles only are going to kill one enemy at a time from a distance. and i bet most of you sniper campers don’t even know which class to target first do you?
point is, sniper rifles are only effective in the hands of someone who isn’t being ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and sitting on his mangina trying to save his “precious K/D ratio”.