The shield is my problem. Sure it reduces damage taken. I just find that while you're shooting with the shield, it's really slow. You can still die fast enough because your gun shoots slow with a shield.

KSG Shotgun was then meant that you shoot normally without a shield. If a bullet is about to hit you, hit the shield button last second before you take damage. The problem is that the shield the first thing I can view as "the item made to slow you down". It's got some freeze when you pull out the shield. Shooting with the shield slows down your movement, and lowers your rate of fire. It also feels as if it adds more freeze to the gun. I also feel that ksg shotgun needs a little less freeze (I don't mind if the damage gets lowered a bit due to freeze rate being shortened.)

I just think the shield should have no freeze upon activation. (like activating lexel laser or the pencil/fork trash pick action) To make it fair, you can't shoot for 2 seconds upon activating the shield. It can make combat more interesting. Block the bullet last second with the right timing to take less damage.