Wondering would it be possible to have a proximity chat

Imma be honest. I tried advocating for ingame voice. I was met with hell noes. So it lead me to believe solo survs just wanna complain about the game instead of opting into communication.

Most agree solo is in need of the most loving, but there seems to be no agreement as to how to best help.

Some want debuffs applied to SWF, like penalties and perk restrictions (looking at you Object and DS) to balance things some and lessen the potential coordination. There is also a few who either want SWF in a separate queue or still insist the ability to SWF at all be abolished. Since the devs heavily resist splitting the playerbase or punishing anyone I doubt any option i gave here is ever adopted.

Others seek to give solos more info and ability to coordinate with each other more, like Kindred and/or Bond or Empathy made basekit, totem counters, and what OP suggests a voice option. These would require buffing killers moderately if chosen.

Imo voice is the way to go, as it is more likely to be acceptable to the devs than any other method, be it a party chat or by proximity. If just proximity I have no idea how they could enforce it at all though (they couldn't on Xbox for instance).

So a global chat is the choice left I'd say. The problem of non-English speakers is very real as others have pointed out.

Never know, that could be something they could add with the new UI. There is more room in the upper left corner for something like that to pop up then the bottom left corner with everything else jammed down there.