Allahu Ackbar!

BloodBane611 · Post by **BloodBane611** » 2008-02-20 03:57

Pointless to debate it, but as Dragonfire said it's a commonly used phrase, like "F*** Yeah!" in america. Even if the DEVs were willing to add it, people would just run around spamming it unnecessarily.

[T]MLPatriot · Post by **[T]MLPatriot** » 2008-02-20 04:26

Adding that battle cry or common spoken phrase within the arab world would be a great thing for PR in my opinion. I highly doubt that it would be offensive to some, I mean the Insurgents are given suicide cars that they can drive into British convoys/rovers/apcs. If thats not offensive, what is? I think it would give a more realist feel to the game for the insurgents. Also what we have to keep in mind, the phrase itself isnt offensive. Its not a swear word and nothing more than a common phrase used by muslims to show their faith. I would be all for it, and as for spamming, most PR players are mature enough to avoid spamming.

gclark03 · Post by **gclark03** » 2008-02-20 04:34

Use the same parameters as the general radio spam protection code. For example, if you see this:
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!

...and so on, you can rest in knowing that they'll be forced to shut up for the next minute or so.

Smellyelly · Post by **Smellyelly** » 2008-02-20 04:41

gclark03 wrote: Pointless to debate it, but as Dragonfire said it's a commonly used phrase, like "F*** Yeah!" in america. Even if the DEVs were willing to add it, people would just run around spamming it unnecessarily.

Thats why you should only add it in certain situations, e.g An rpg firing, a grenade getting thrown, a road side bomb going off ect.
If lil BF2v players want to say allah akbar by firing off an rpg... We'll PR is doomed with them regardless.

Doedel · Post by **Doedel** » 2008-02-20 09:35

It is a common phrase which means "God is Great", similar to "Amen" or "Praise the Lord" (and pass the ammunition) or in some ways "Hooah" (which should definately be in there somewhere).

As for spam, the spam prevention we have now for all radio commands should be good enough to prevent it drowning out all other sounds.

Reminds me of this one guy I played with back in .6 this one time. He'd constantly mutter "Allahu ackbar" over VOIP everytime he made a kill, blew something up, etc. It was utterly hilarious, mainly because he did it so damned well.

Doc_Frank · Post by **Doc_Frank** » 2008-02-20 09:37

gclark03 wrote:Use the same parameters as the general radio spam protection code. For example, if you see this:
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!
Player 1: Allah Akbar!

...and so on, you can rest in knowing that they'll be forced to shut up for the next minute or so.

At least someone else demonstrated that it's not "ackbar"... Only in lameanglosaxononlinewarfaredialect.

jayceon515 · Post by **jayceon515** » 2008-02-20 12:32

Suicide cars are far more offensive than a simple commonly used muslim phrase . Insurgency was the mod of the year for a reason

I wouldn't put it in comm rose since there are many 10 year old smacktards in PR that would spam it all the time. It should work like "throwing frag" in pre 0.7 releases. Every faction would then need a voice command for the same function but it could maybe work if only MEC voices use Allahu akbar and rest use an empty or very silent .ogg file. I'll have a look at it.

LtSoucy · Post by **LtSoucy** » 2008-02-20 12:56

I really dont want to hear when ever any person fire Allah Ackbar

Post by **Spec** » 2008-02-20 14:24

Dont add it to grenade throws or anything, especialy not for MEC - they are an professional army and shouldnt start yelling useless stuff only to give away their position. The devs just removed auto-messages.

IF it has to be added, maybe as a joke, for example for the suicide car horn, but i dont really think its needed.

BabaGurGur · Post by **BabaGurGur** » 2008-02-20 16:08

[R-PUB]MrD wrote: Till then, allahu kebab!

I'm sorry if im being Disrespectful, but.. no.

That was not good

Anyways, Allahu Akbar means "God is Great", we say it for everything really, ever seen a peice of meat that says 'Halal'? That means the animal was killed in a Islamic way, meaning, by the neck and a prayer in process (From a man or speaker), but then again, you go back to the side of, are the terrorists really Muslim? Controary (Spell please

), to many beliefs, Islam itself in one of its meaning means "Peace", And it is against the strict rules of Islam to kill innocent civilians, which many terrorists have, im sure like 70% of the recruitment for recruit terrorists is to find a member from a rival militia/group (Shia and Sunni) and de-capitiate them, which is against Islamic law, you can't just go around cutting peoples heads off..

Behind the scenes, these proclaimed "Mujahadeen" are really way off and breaking off from Islam, there are only a few REAL Mujahdeen in Iraq, so this is the reason I don't want this in the game.

I can't tell you how many times i'v gotten into arguments in basrah servers because some wacko is yelling Allahu Akbar, which is extremely racist when used in a way, and he was using it in just that, I won't name the group of 2, but they had me pretty ticked off...

P.S.: MrD no disrespect man but, that was offensive

gclark03 · Post by **gclark03** » 2008-02-20 17:35

Remember, kids:

Allah Ackbar =

Allah Akbar =

Clear enough?

Eddie Baker · Post by **Eddie Baker** » 2008-02-21 03:05

Suggested before. Not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.