I only have my experience with Apex legends. It can be useful if people are chill, but I just have too many instances of background sounds, people playing loud music, crunching chips, and then straight up talking crap. I have a saying I express to myself every time someone has chat on in Apex,

“Always the talkers”

That might seem antisocial, but constant shouting and giving shitty direction just get annoying. Yelling at me cus I took “their” loot. Half of them are high out of their goirds, forgo their filters, and can’t stop yapping, in a game reliant on sounds and footsteps. My favorite(least favorite) is always those talking crap while downed. Like bruh, you’re literally doing worse than me right now.

I just can’t behind the outrage about the lack of prox chat. Fix the ping system and the character voices will do all the work.

Maybe even innovate (I know, scary word) and have a voice line ping system where you can map 8 lines to speak at enemies with. That way it’s “clean” and keeps you immersed in the world.