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# Modifying Factions Through the Faction Manager

## Modifying Factions Through the Faction Manager

Factions work like Unity’s tags and layers do with a list of strings that can be added, removed or edited at any time. 

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When you have finished making your changes to the Faction Manager, they will be updated across all AI and the Faction Settings foldout of their Detection Component.

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