btw it also said treat like a shooting attack not as a shooting attack those two words can change the context of a action
the word Like : Like a shooting attack is implying it follows the same ruling but is not quite basically supplementing it so they don't have to copy and paste the word but rather just redirect you to a rule that currently exists.
the word As a : As a shooting attack would imply it is a shooting attack and it is to follow all the rules of shooting in the rule section but this would be contradicting to the current guidelines of how nova's work stated in the rulebook.