Revert "Rebalance sniper bots to be more like T2 range bots"

[lL1l1]

Reverts #7142

The changes were negatively received by nearly everyone because it broke the sniper's identity and caused new issues with apm requirements and unit speed while solving an uncertain cost issue for smaller game sizes.
Low range snipers were especially obsolete with the more powerful SACUs being in the same test release, which offered similar ability to counter percy/brick but with better misc. stats (aoe, buildpower, regen, density) and less apm requirement.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added sniper-mode support to additional units and expanded their targeting behavior to include command units.

• Balance Changes

  • Adjusted sniper-bot and shield-disruptor stats, including higher weapon range, revised damage and rate of fire, and updated movement/build costs for better overall tuning.

[coderabbitai]

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ℹ️ Recent review info

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Configuration used: defaults

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Run ID: 217c99da-07ae-48f6-a3d3-5b73067ae97f

📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 046b6d5 and 7d35796.

📒 Files selected for processing (5)

• changelog/snippets/balance.7142.md
• changelog/snippets/category.7158.md
• units/DAL0310/DAL0310_unit.bp
• units/XAL0305/XAL0305_unit.bp
• units/XSL0305/XSL0305_unit.bp

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Rebalances three T3 sniper/disruptor units: DAL0310 (Absolver) gets increased weapon range; XAL0305 (Sprite Striker) gains SNIPEMODE category, adjusted economy/physics, and expanded targeting; XSL0305 (Usha-Ah) gains SNIPEMODE, increased economy, reworked movement, higher sniper damage/range, and COMMAND target priority. A new changelog snippet is added.

Changes

T3 Sniper Bot & Absolver Rebalance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
DAL0310 Absolver: weapon range units/DAL0310/DAL0310_unit.bp	Shield Disruptor Cannon MaxRadius increased from 52 to 65.
XAL0305 Sprite Striker: category, economy, physics, weapon units/XAL0305/XAL0305_unit.bp	Adds SNIPEMODE category; raises BuildCostEnergy/BuildTime; reduces MaxAcceleration, MaxBrake, MaxSpeed to 2.5; increases main gun MaxRadius to 60; adds COMMAND to TargetPriorities.
XSL0305 Usha-Ah: category, economy, physics, all weapons units/XSL0305/XSL0305_unit.bp	Adds SNIPEMODE category; raises economy costs; adjusts movement values and SniperModeSpeedMultiplier; increases dummy and main gun MaxRadius to 55; adds COMMAND to target priorities; sniper-mode Damage raised to 2000, MaxRadius to 65, RateOfFire reduced.
Changelog changelog/snippets/category.7158.md	Adds placeholder changelog entry referencing PR #7158.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• FAForever/fa#7142: Directly modifies the same three unit blueprints (DAL0310, XAL0305, XSL0305) with the prior sniper bot rebalance that this PR adjusts or reverses.

Suggested labels

area: changelog management

Suggested reviewers

• Rhaelya
• BlackYps

🐇 Three bots got a tune, range and damage anew,
SNIPEMODE declared, and COMMAND in view!
The Absolver reaches far, the Usha hits hard,
Sprite Striker slows down, but still on guard.
Hop hop, balanced bliss! 🎯

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch revert-7142-balance/rhaelya-sniper-changes

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[Rhaelya]

Everything looks in order.