From the Relic changes notes:
Whole post can be found here
The At Rifle does damage additional damage to vehicles when you protect it behind packs. I personally managed to take out medium tanks with it by hitting the rear Armour. It's also useful to destroy team weapons, especially in early-mid game where you don't really have the tanks to do that.
Like I said, Relic intends the UC, 222, M20, Kübel & M3 to be counter for snipers. Whether this is true is up for discussion (I personally don't agree).
I don't think that says what you seem to think it says. They're still "introducing counter play against snipers" if 222 counters all other snipers. Just like they'd be "introducing counter play against tanks" if they created a unit that beat the t34, the p4, the Sherman, and the Cromwell but lost to the panther.
On the substance, though, I'm not sure that this is a bad change. I'd like to see sniper play de-emphasized in general, but I'm afraid that this will just let the Ost sniper run roughshod over the Brit early game.
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