Familiar Face

Civic · Hive Minds

Hive MindsLocked after creationBioGenesis

Familiar Face is a civic in Stellaris 4.5.2 for Hive Minds. Requirements: authority Hive Mind. Not with civic Devouring Swarm or Pyromanic Instinct. It gives +25% Regulatory Node Experience Gain, +2 Envoy Capacity and +15% Infiltration Speed. DLC: BioGenesis.

Kind: Civic
Group: Hive Minds
Players can pick it: yes
Clashes with: 2
ID: civic_hive_familiar_face

Familiar Face

What Familiar Face does

The game's own effect text (the civic's description key), then its modifier lines as the game prints them.

Envoys and Officials take on the physical form of the Empires they are assigned to.

Trust Required to perform Diplomatic Actions: -50%

+25%Regulatory Node Experience Gain
+2Envoy Capacity
+15%Infiltration Speed
-2Operation Difficulty
+60Add Attunement with the Cradle of Souls

Requirements

Read from the potential and possible blocks (the game's list rules: ethics, authority, civics, origin, species); the wording is ours, the quoted rule texts are the game's.

Cannot be taken with Familiar Face

Civics that forbid this one or that this one forbids.

Devouring Swarm

Pyromanic Instinct

Other versions

swap_type: another name or text when its condition holds (nomadic empires, lithoids…).

Familiar Face
Envoys and Officials take on the physical form of the Empires they are assigned to. Trust Required to perform Diplomatic Actions: -50%
- Wilderness empire

In the game

Cooperation is preferred to direct confrontation. This Hive Mind has evolved diplomatic drones able to take on the shape and mannerisms of their interlocutors.

Try it in the empire builder →

Familiar Face: questions

What are the requirements for Familiar Face in Stellaris?

authority Hive Mind. Not with civic Devouring Swarm or Pyromanic Instinct. DLC: BioGenesis.

What can't Familiar Face be combined with?

Devouring Swarm and Pyromanic Instinct — each forbids the other in the files' rules.

What does the Familiar Face civic do?

It gives +25% Regulatory Node Experience Gain, +2 Envoy Capacity, +15% Infiltration Speed, -2 Operation Difficulty and +60 Add Attunement with the Cradle of Souls, plus the effects its description lists.

Can Familiar Face be changed after the game starts?

No — the files set it as not modifiable after the empire is created (modification = no).

What is the ID of Familiar Face?

civic_hive_familiar_face (Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/governments/civics/02_gestalt_civics.txt and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).