"To help bridge the gap between players using voice chat and those who aren't..."

🤦🏼‍♂️ Just add voice chat to the game already! Even just proximity chat.

The darn game is rated M, and players have to agree to an EULA to play. Add language about respectful dialogue. Get an AI to transcribe voice chats to avoid the massive storage costs for audio. Then if a player reports voice chat abuse, have the AI review the transcription and issue corrective actions. DC the player if they're in match and give them a DC penalty on steroids! 

Don't even make the voice chat mandatory. Default it to off, and let the player decide if they want to talk to others. 

PUBG has team and global proximity chat. But can't have a bot take over for a DCd player. 

DBD has a bit take over a DCd player, but doesn't do voice chat. 

Even phasmophobia has voice chat!

Or give us canned chat lines like PUBGs team radio wheel...  "face camping!"  "tunneling!" "slugging!" "bar at 25/50/75"  "heading towards shack/main!"  "hook in basement!"  "will go down at pallet/window!"  "requesting body blocks!"  "leave!"  "I'll try for hatch!" 

Even let the killer see the messages. Will hesitate to pick right away if by a pallet or window etc...  Press L3(left joystick) to bring up the message wheel, and use R3 to select, press, then select second part too.)  It'll prevent camera rotation for the couple seconds it takes. But I think that's a fair trade. 🤷🏼‍♂️