Directional shield can be utilized in turrets and mechs

[Gungnir]

Just pull out your secondary, enter the turret or mech/LRV, hit the stim button and when you ADS boom, shield up. Its pretty useful against bots/squids.

[Mr Dravus TTV]

I think it needs a buff or something because this is definitley the most useful time and its something I'll almost never waste a stim or take the time to do when normal shield works easier.

[Malidictus]

Which is a fairly obvious bug. Expect it to be patched sooner rather than later.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

It should just auto deploy when you use an emplacement. No reason not to really. It's a very low-mid stratagem otherwise for only specific builds or tight teamplay.

[The Blind One]

I honestly think bringing the shields should automatically be enabled when using mechs or emplacements. Like how often do people even bring shields anyway? That directional shield especially is just a massive hitbox that soaks up enemy hits and is basically a waste of a stratagem.

Might as well make them more useful and cool having synergies with other stratagem slots imho. Lets be honest guys ... the mechs are useless on higher difficulties anyway, so a shield synergy could be well deserved.

And for emplacements it obviously is also a cool synergy.

They should make these things standard instead of patching them out.

[Buntkreuz]

The shields (Ballistic and Directional) should have occupied a different equipment slot.
If they were no backpack, they would have had a very good use.
Like for example using the shield to defend, use secondary to shoot and have a backpack drone to combat.
Or tanking a lot of damage with bubble and directional shield.