How effective are adaptive shields against burst fire?
Solution 1:
Whenever you shoot an enemy with a shotgun, typically only one damage number pops up. So just because of just that I would assume that they take full damage from the shot.
On larger enemies however, if you are far away and the bullets are spread out enough it could pop up 2 or more numbers for damage depending on how large the shotgun's spread is and the distance the bullets traveled. Not sure if that will work the same in this case.