Proximity Chat needs to be game-wide.

This game is very important. It has a huge initial player interest, it's the first official launch with this new studio, and it has a lot of potential. One of the biggest things that I think would make this stick for a lot of new players, is Proximity chat. I'm not talking about what the game has, which is just Squad chat mixed into the worlds audio, we need full proximity chat. The tech is there since we already have it with squad chat, there's no reason to not have it for all players. We've all had people walking past us while we're in revive state, waiting for SOMEONE to pick up the revive, and it just never happens. It was one of the bigger issues a lot of people noticed during the creator showcase. The solution seems pretty obvious; Let us scream at them.

One of the biggest parts of Battlefield is this sense of working together towards a common goal. What better way to strengthen this core thing, then adding full proximity chat support. We've seen tons of different situations where this system has been insanely popular in games.

 Battlebit was a huge example of this. It's pox chat was arguably one of the things that made it so popular. Black Ops 6 had a smaller form of it, whenever you would grab people as a human shield. That ability to talk to the enemy team, either to smack talk, relate with, or just straight up role play as two people in war, was one of the coolest things to a lot of COD players. When Tarkov finally added Prox chat, it became one of the staple parts of that video game. Prox chat drives interactions in that game at this point. Games like Mount & Blade or Holdfast, or mods for games like the Minecraft Prox chat mod that several streamers use; This is an extremely popular feature.

I would argue that adding this to battlefield, which is something the community has been asking to be added for a long time, would be the exact engagement driver the game needs. The game is already in an insanely good spot, and I think Prox chat on top of everything else would make it significantly appealing in the eyes of the average FPS  player. For all of the people who grew up playing halo custom games, and are excited to use the new portal mode, imagine how much better that would be with proximity chat, and it being part of the custom scripting.

I love this franchise, and I think this game has a lot to offer. Proximity chat could one of many boons that this game has in it's arsenal.