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Can’t lock in your agent? Here’s why. Screenshot by Dot Esports<\/figcaption><\/figure>

What\u2019s worse is, after the timer ends, the agent select feature is randomly assigning agents to impacted players\u2014even if the agent they originally wanted wasn\u2019t taken.<\/p>