Because you are asking the wrong question.

But I'm gonna answer it anyways:
Use flaylock to counter the mentioned shotgun scouts. It is a rocket, a sort of missile. In space Caldaris are one of those who specialise in them.

Yes, but the flaylock is NOT a Caldari weapon, and I'm not training it. I don't know how many times I have to repeat this. It's OK for you to think that's ridiculous but it's a given, so there's no point in continually saying this weapon or that weapon or whatever equipment, if it's not Caldari.

Yes, but the flaylock is NOT a Caldari weapon, and I'm not training it. I don't know how many times I have to repeat this. It's OK for you to think that's ridiculous but it's a given, so there's no point in continually saying this weapon or that weapon or whatever equipment, if it's not Caldari.

The only advice I can give to you as a long time player and as an HAV pilot who will never get their racial HAV.

Get over it because we aren't getting additional content no matter how much we want it. Since you are only using Caldari Gear your only options are to develop a better situational awareness or fit your suits in attempt to catch shotgunners on radar before they can take advantage of their close range. Perhaps practice more with Magsec SMGs.

They're supposed to have great RoF and DPS equal to a Rail Rifle.

But if we stick to lore, it IS a rocket weapon

Yes, every suit is crap against a shotgun; but I have had greater success against them on a cal assault suit because in addition to not being weighted down by armor mods and generally more maneuverable, I use one enhanced myo to get a normal albeit bigger jump to hop side to side and toward and therefore past the scout. Then I can turn around and fire.

The Caldari scout IS a rail rifle scout! That's the primary weapon on a Hawk Scout BPO. And the bolt pistol is the secondary weapon, but from what I can see, it's actually more the primary because of the two it's the high-alpha weapon.

For those that don't know the layout of a Caldari Hawk Scout, it's RR, BP, APEX cloak, scanner, locus grenade, two basic shield extenders, two precision enhancers, a profile dampener and a range enhancer. I usually swap out the range enhancer for a profile dampener and beef up everything except the actual weapons which are fine for my needs.

From what I see both the RR and BP are primarily range weapons, but the BP works best for me at point blank range in a stealth attack.

I like your ideas of using distraction from range. I will try that.

Thanks.

Switch up the bp for a magsec, it compliments the rr well. Pounding on people from the peripherals is awesome, especially when your team is right in front of them.

No one has a counter to the shotgun scout. If it gets the drop on you, 9/10 times you will die. Don't make this an argument that caldari have no way to stop them when the truth is it is hard for everyone to do.

This

If it jumps it's hard to hit/stop/etc.

CCP, in their infinite wisdom, decided to make one mod do two things?! It's now the most abused mod in the game?! They didn't test hit detection, since they already had hit detection issues before this. They didn't bother to consider certain limitations to this super jumpy punchy bs?! They just threw it out there like they always do smh?!

The fix you ask?

Simple! Limit the amount of myos that can be applied! "but they did that?!" I know, to 3 mods on any suit with 3 slots smh?! Instead limit assaults, mandos, logies, and sentinels to one myo!

The original idea for this was so scouts can reach areas previously unreachable by ground troops. Before only dropships could place high links, which I had no problem with... Then CCP, looking for another gimmick, decided to let players jump high to reach higher areas. It spun into this garbage we have now?!

Assaults taking dmg just leaps into the air knowing console controller players can't track them and hit detection is broken smh?! Scouts, already hard to hit, can now just leap off in any direction to get in a good shotgun position. Heavies(cmdos and sents) ...... lmao hahahahaha.... oooh I can't breath lol! It makes so little sense lmao! They're jumping lol o.0 smh?!

Only scouts, who need the mobility and versatility to be scouts and do scout sh*t, should be allowed to use more than one myo.

For your issue I suggest.... well hell idk what to suggest lol! Hell I can't hit most of the speedy, jumpy, female suits either lol! Hit detection on these types of fits is non existant?! Add KB/M and lag, and they become invincible.

CCP has alot of fixing to do to this game, yet they waste their resources on events and gimmicks?! Instead of just fixing the issues smh?! They think the playerbase wants events and gimmicks, bpos and FOTM. Really we just want the game to 1st work properly. 2nd NO LAG! 3rd if you can't do this on PS3 port the game to a system where you can!