They are not melee weapons either. IRL they have 50-100meters effective range. And pellets don't really spread like this, they don't leave middle empty you know, they spread out but not like this where middle of aim would be without pellet.

Now they are effective at 10 meters and that it. In game with fast TTK and big open maps they make shotguns worse than in BF1, it's bad balance imo.

I mean you aim for head like I did in picture and only one pellet hits the body. This is like 12 damage with one shot, from damn 10 meters range.

Now I don't think shotguns should be one shot kill on more than 10 meters, but they should not also be 9 bullets to kill either. They should have some potential at mid range when you fire like 4-5 shots. Right now only effective way to use them is to hide in corner and wait someone to come directly on your location. Beacause faster TTK means you will die fast and bigger maps mean you can't run around with them either.