They use it in the context of “intentional”. When people are just bad at the game. Yes, they are throwing, but no it’s NOT intentional. Stop saying someone’s throwing, when they’re just bad at the game.
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That useless overloaded word is used mostly by players who like blaming others. It’s rare to see someone intentionally losing the match.
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It feels as if they just grab at straws to have “justification” on reporting ANYONE when they lose.
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People are just convinced of the idea of soft throwing. Trying to intentionally play poorly to lose more matches, but just unconvincingly enough to avoid getting banned.
The result is that people will commonly be unable to definitively tell good play from someone being genuinely bad.
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If the team can’t get out of spawn or move the payload within x minutes, you have every right to mess around in the safe zone. What should be implemented is an automatic forfeit when the teams are clearly not even.
Welp, thats overwatch
Bad teammate- throwing
Good enemy- smurf/cheater
No matter the details.
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It’s like, when you’re holding something and you want to get it way over there without walking all the way over there. So you throw it.
Did I get it right?
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Throwing…
An object that is given velocity by applying kinetic energy to it giving it forward momentum.
Is there a problem?
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Right up there with the word “Toxic” in modern society. People use it for so many things it’s nearly lost it’s meaning.
That said there are degree’s to throwing. Playing badly is not exactly “throwing”. But playing a hero you know you are bad at could be considered throwing to some people.
You could play the best widow of your life, but if your playing into double shield and never land a single shot on anything but barriers it’s a pretty bad play. Your picking the worst hero vs the enemy comp possible…
So even if your doing well as widow, your still not really trying to win.
Most players dont. Like they literally think that outside “griefing” team mates with TP off the map or walling them or just doing emotes to the enemy is throwing.
Anything else? nah its not so … you can just play “Flanking Rein, hidden Charge” when you tank and because you are QUOTE “Trying to win” (in a special and very unoptimized way) you are immune to gameplay sabotage reports.
Sabotage is 1 thing, griefing is another, throwing is another thing too.
Team said i was throwing cuz I rallied too early and then they nano bladed, copied, and mined so it was my fault for not having rally to somehow stop all 4 of those ults. The bap that couldn’t out heal a brig tho?? not his fault
No, this is an awful idea. OW is a quick enough game. I don’t need my teammates giving up when someone on our team picks a hero they don’t like.
Trust me, it will happen.
That’s exactly it. Everyone who plays worse than me is throwing, and everyone who plays better than me is a smurf. I’m the only one in the entire game playing correctly and at the correct level. That attitude is the problem.
It’s like driving. Everyone slower than you is an old grandma and everyone faster than you is a maniac. You’re the only one on the road who is driving at the correct speed.
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Usually the same people who use the word “throwing” when someone did their best but performed poorly also use the term “C9” incorrectly as well. C9 means the game was winnable but you stepped off the point in overtime… yet people say “C9” when someone is booped off the point, but also had no chance of winning as they would get eliminated in seconds anyway.
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In OW throwing means:
- Your teammate picked a hero you don’t like
- Someone picked a hero you were going to play
- Someone made a mistake or two
- Someone, as the last survivor, jumps off the map to avoid giving enemy ult charge
- Just excisting on your team, because no one knows how to play the game but you
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The euphemism treadmill steadily erodes all meaning.
People are desperate and unreasonable when they’re upset, when they lose they can’t just say their teammates are bad they have to say they are DELIBERATELY bad. They have to use “throwing” as a euphemism for such bad play.
Most of the actual throwing is by people who stay in the spawn room furiously spamming into the chat complaining about “throwers”
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I don’t think it’s as black and white as people make it out to be. For example, I had a game where our Mercy only used pistol. Ran with group shooting at enemies but didn’t use abilities, heal, and only provided extra damage.
Some people could argue that Mercy wasn’t throwing. I would argue what that player was doing is throwing. Whether intentional or not by not performing her role as a healer it put our team at a big disadvantage as we only had one active healer.
Was the person intentionally not healing? Did they not understand how Mercy worked? Is it someone else (a young child) playing on the account? No one can answer those questions except that person so each situation is different and it’s up to players to make a call. In this case we reported the Mercy based on the evidence we did know. That player wasn’t performing their role, their level suggests they should know Mercy is able to heal and use abilties, and that that player put us at a disadvantage.
As far as I can tell (I’ve not seen the actual rule for it. and no, “frowned upon” type stuff isn’t a rule) that isn’t a rule. You can play any role any way you want to. As long as it’s not obviously things like mei walling teams, constant throwing yourself off cliffs type stuff (that’s clearly defined as gameplay sabotage. But, playing a dps support character isn’t “intentional” throwing. The intentional part being the key word.
"Propel (something) with force throught the air… Like my chances of winning, there they gooooooo…
I dislike “pass farmer” for the same reason. Just used by people as an excuse to blame others for not doing what they want.