the community was great
Lmao the pink-colored nostalgia glasses. Queueing in this game mode was absolutely awful cause everyone was trying to do different challenges that required different augments and champions. Unless you had a full premade team you'd spend a lot of time in queue getting dodge after dodge or people afking if someone didn't pick what they needed for their challenge.
The gamemode was fun in the beginning, but after a couple days queueing up was just hell cause you'd find people who were irritated cause they still hadn't completed their challenges.
Surprise gamemode and skins with a cool cinematic was great, and you can look back at it remembering only the good parts, but it wasn't all fun and games, and the gamemode wasn't sustainable long-term, since most of the players were only interested in the rewards, and stopped playing as soon as they got them