>>5537834After discovering my first Valkyrie was a Bootleg and getting a LEGIT Valkyrie to replace it, the gimmick suddenly makes total fucking sense.
This is an attempt to shed bootleggers.
The softer, inferior materials of the bootleg cannot hold together even a fraction as well as the legit ones. Even with a three-second handicap, the bootleg will explode into chunks while the legit one MIGHT take one click of damage. If the handicap is flipped, the bootleg explodes INSTANTLY upon contact.
Bootleggers would actually have to use quality materials to even be marginally competitive with the legit ones.
