You can attack her in Update 2.0: th-cam.com/video/Jss0nWX9wo0/w-d-xo.html - Sorry for the erratic movements. Hanako Arasaka cut content? th-cam.com/video/m7JQGBpyC-k/w-d-xo.html How Adam Smasher sounds in different countries: th-cam.com/video/kTvhmesP8i4/w-d-xo.html Militech Exoskeleton: th-cam.com/video/DAe_6q1C5UA/w-d-xo.html
@SeaDee Alternate outfit you can enable in the main menu (maybe even settings mid game?). Was part of one of the free updates. At least that outfit specifically, I know I've seen other Johnny appearances that I think were mods.
It’s surreal to actually see the lady in the trailer as a real character in-game. Kinda makes me wonder where the max-tac agent that took her in is now…
Melissa Rory, the ciberpsycho girl from the first ever trailer of CP2K77 that came out over a decade ago! They totally wiped her memory and turned her into a MaxTac personnel! 😞 Edit: Holy Nova! So many likes and so many valuable replies! Edit 2: Yes! She deserves a full-fledged side-mission!
Woah! I'm guessing that's information you can find in the game, somewhere, somehow or it's from the game's dedicated wikia/fandom page or from a statement by the devs. Either way...dayum!
I hope they give the next main character cool origin stories to choose from like being an ex- MaxTac, a Fixer, or an agent for Rogue AI's just to name a few.
I really wish the sequel could be about V and Johnny cuz i loved their characters but I know it's basically impossible without ruining the first game's endingd
I always haved the dumb idea of a milsim like shooter game where you are a trauma team or ncpd . And just dealing with the shit on the cyberpunk world.
Cheeky easter egg. Most of us know Melissa was the cyberpsycho from the original trailer. The other egg is that the name of the mission "Bullets" is also the name of the song from the original trailer
Another one I've just remembered, side mission involving blue moon from us cracks, the mission is called "every breath you take", the mission is about a stalker. The Police (later became known as Sting) sung a song called "every breath you take" and its all about being a stalker.
want to know another one? 20-13 is a reference of the OG Cyberpunk 2077 trailer... and from '69 to '77 is the time they took to release the game (8 years) since anounced.
I just noticed that there are messages from a doctor about Melissa Rory's cyberpsychosis that I found in the NCPD in one of River's missions. It seems that it is common with maxtac personnel
It is. They commonly use individuals that are essentially on the edge of cyber psychosis, including past psychos, that’s what it takes to stop other augged individuals
FYI you can get MaxTac helmet, jacket, and pants at Judy's apartment. After the mission Pyramid and after romancing her. They are all common rarity, but I'm positive you can upgrade them.
@@ChallengerBanX Not unless you use a console command via CET. You can set a "switch" or "flag" in the save with the command 'Game.SetDebugFact(“judy_romanceable”,1)', which will allow Male V to romance Judy and have her stay in Night City. Unintended via normal means, of course, but there is animation data and male VA work for the Judy romance scene.
@@ChallengerBanX It happens with certain quest related outfits. I.E. the scuba suit. Or if the game takes your clothes off forcefully, i.e. the sidequest where you get kidnapped and stripped of all your gear and clothes by scavs.
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 It's about V working with the New United States Of America Government in places like Pacifica. So doubtful it'll involve Maxtech but it may be a possibility.
It would be cool if Cyberpunk had actual professions in it. Becoming a MaxTac, Trama Team member. Hell doing deliveries. I was told that even if you do all of the side missions and gigs you still will not have enough money to pay for everything in the game, as in you cannot unlock all the cars in one play through.
collect weapons and sell. I currently have 800,000 eddies after getting top shelf Cyberware. time consuming but doable. or if you have a netrunner build jack into the terminals and collect money that way
they cut alot from the original tabletop game and whats left is closer to a shooter than an rpg. Another example is adam smasher he was the tabletops tarrasque and would be called in if you pissed off the corpos (DM) enough very funny but underwhelming in game. He also killed johnny in one shot, cutting him in half with a shotgun round.
max out your tech ability and just spend an hour or so crafting stuff till your crafting skill is level 20, respec your perk points all into the crafting tree (the crafting trees level 20 perk is +10% sell price, then 1% after that, so 30 levels into that helps) then craft, sell, buy parts from junk traders, craft, sell, repeat. did this and 100% the game my first run to get all the achievements n such
Would be nice if they had an actual branching side story where you can actually join MaxTac, they already got cyberpsychos, even adding a new layer of paint to it with it like being on a maxtac response would be cool.
Hmm, might be hard. MaxTac is pretty much Corp Sponsored with the local Main Corp being Arasaka. You know the guys who want the thing in our head really bad. Might work in the "Devil" Branch?
It's funnyy because people swear this game is fixed after whichever patch is released, yet I can't seem to sit through one video without obvious bugs and glitches.
@@billywashere6965 very true. That new guy that sits in the afterlife club cdpr added in with the latest patch- he's in the seat whether someone's already in it or not. When i spoke to him, he was in the chair clipping in the body of another npc who was sitting there. So i sit down and he's just talking with this lady leaning forward through his body. Lol, it was funny to look at.
@@billywashere6965 For many people, if a bug isn't game breaking or negatively effecting gameplay then it's not an issue. The problem on release was than there where a lot of bugs that made just playing the game a pain and took a lot of the fun out of it. Nowadays most of the bugs are easily ignored or even humorous. Not to say everyone should be ok with such bugs, as they can still ruin immersion, but it's why lots of people consider it fixed.
@@MrEsphoenix I get that, it's just weird to me because I'm okay with ignoring these kind of bugs in some low-budget indie affair. It makes sense with those games. But a dude clipping through another dude because they didn't set post-entity script collision detection for entities no longer running active scripts comes across as absolute amateurish. Even Crytek had that ironed out in Crysis in very smooth ways and that's more than 15 years old at this point.
@@billywashere6965 It's a big complicated game from a smaller studio that had never done anything close to this scale. I think sometimes people struggle to understand how many complications are added into a game through something like non scripted NPC's in an open world game.
It would’ve been cool as hell if there was a whole maxtac side story line. Also would just feel right to end up being able to romance her. I feel like most RPGs have at least one or two romance or companion options that are like either morally ambiguous or just straight up bad guys, she could’ve been that for this game.
Also, the Max Tac lady doesn't seemed to be completely cured from cyberpsychosis, just enough for her to work on the field as she gone into detail about how it felt killing a cyber psycho that gave me the creeps.
It probably is. It's such a mess with potential, with an interesting but gimped story. It could have been so much more than merely a decent game and I HATE IT FOR THAT LOST POTENTIAL.
Imagine if the first Cyberpsycho in the anime ended up with MaxTac instead of dead. While not an Adam Smasher, guy would have been quite a menace. Still amazed that at the end of the trailer all those years ago we see her caught and captured, and here she is working for the same Tac team that captured her! Thought she was forgotten but happy she wasn’t!
Original trailer made me think we were getting a syndicate style game centered around growing and maintaining a MaxTac squad of reconditioned cyberpsychos. I was incorrect, but man that would be a good game.
I'm honestly surprised. From the first trailer, I always assumed you'd play her or the guy that nailed her. This was even before I knew what Cyberpunk was.
The original plan for the game was actually gonna be you playing as a MaxTac operative dealing with cyborgs going cyberpsycho out of nowhere. Iirc, this got changed after the Wild Hunt devs got brought on after that game finished content around 2016-ish, which is when 2077 ramped up from pre-production, and then everything changed to focus more on the Punk aspect of Cyberpunk more. So yeah, the trailer was accurate at the time, in 2012, just that what the game was gonna be about totally changed.
@@selinawalsh9075 I had a hunch but I'm glad to know with certainty now that was what happened. I love what we finally got, after they fixed as much as they could of course, but I kinda miss the original concept.
Honestly i think it would be so cool to join Maxtac. Would be so cool to play actual detective and solve crimes in Night City and the ocassional full on assault with the companies shooting squads backing you up when you bust some criminal organisations. God knows there are plenty of them in the city
Funny thing happened in my run through this mission. I knocked the psycho out with a quickhack and he went unconscious for a few moments till MaxTac came in and he just randomly died. I guess he has to die for the mission to continue lol
In the dialogue with Zane it is denoted that V was only holding it, but he never fainted as it was done in the gameplay. MaxTac had to arrive and kill him.
Would be pretty hard if in the expansion a MaxTac liaison is a "fixer" and will send you on jobs that MaxTac would normally go on. What with the combat zone being a place and all.
Not really. You get calls from NCPD captains to take out gang leaders around the city. They can do the same for Max-Tac. Should have consequences though. They should send you after the same ones Regina has you save. If you kill them you piss off Regina. If you save them, you piss off Max-Tac
but all of maxtec are cyberpsychos... and V isn't a cyberpsycho no matter how much you add to your character... im a fking netrunning god that can mow down an entire building full of people in seconds without firing a single shot... and somehow still not a cyberpsycho lol...
@@arcanumelite4853 we are cyberpsycho, Just not late stage. You get the anger. The random attacks...etc. just due to Johnny you reign it in better than most
@@taintedmyth0s636 But there are good cops in the game. River. Those guys who ask about Barry. The one you have to kill or make disappear for Regina. Probably bunch more I forgot about.
In my playthough I let Zane do the talking, when he messaged me, the messages were cordial and stuff like "Ahh V thanks for saving my life and stuff and here have a discount". Would've been nice if the dialogue was a little different for interrupting him, sarcastically thanking him and calling his offer shit.
100% this was originally intended as a way to join MaxTac/NCPD before they had to cut content/crunch before release. Just like with the 6th Street target practice mission, V's straight up offered a position and only able to answer "no" or "no, but rude." I'd be willing to bet that the CyberPsycho contracts you get from Regina were initially part of a MaxTac Job questline but shunted over to Regina once they figured they wouldn't have time to include quests for joinable factions like gangs, MaxTac, or the NCPD.
Rory was the woman in the trailer few years ago. Imo cyberpsychosis is treatable but the government wont tell that to the public because then they'd try to get help from their own psychosis problems. I assume the treatment is very very VERY expensive, probably why they all say "when they go psycho they are dead/lost".
I remember that mission. Managed to bring the psycho to 10% hp and it wouldn't go down further. Guess it's scripted to not allow you to finish him off yourself.
This should've led to a Side Biz where you get some missions from Melissa Rory and unravel the truth that happened all those years ago. Maybe even have a situation where she gets over-stimulated and her cyberpsychosis returns and then you either have to put her down or detain her yet again.
Yknow, it would've been cool to hear from her at the end of the game with all those voice messages, since joining MaxTac sounds fucking nice for a story.
If you get MaxTac called on you she will appear and come at you with those Blades. If you can scan her while she's charging it says Melissa Rory. Pretty neat. She took my Bing shotgun to the chest though..............
They did say some MaxTac things are coming with the next patch, before the xpac. Maybe this questline continues? We get to join MaxTac for a questline? Would be dope af
I recall something about this being a placeholder/starter quest for maxtac content when they add more. Memory is a bit fuzzy but I think one of the devs brought it up on stream sometime just after launch.
We should have a dlc with a feature for everyone where you can join gangs, and maxtac or NCPD, but if you kill them you get kicked out and become more hostile toward you. And the feature is for everyone, with dlc or not
You know, I'm hoping the second cyberpunk is going to be better, because there's too many storylines that we didn't get. And it's understandable when it comes to making the engine better and adding so much of the story, but there's so much potential here.
@@ChadVulpesThose other games were based on books with a set story and cyberpunk is a TRPG they are very different from each other. Also they said life paths would matter
@@HumanB312 None of this changes the fact that CDPR never made this kind of game, and there was no reason to believe that they would. Every company pushes all kinds of bullshit to get you to buy their product.
johnny always playing the rock legend card even tho the only one who's still famous af from his old band is kerry eurodyne and nearly nobody knows who johnny is lmao
No one beats maxtac. They're too efficient canon wise. They're trained to take out cyberpsychos who are augmented to hell with all kinds of crazy cyberware and have crazy weaponry that shreds them like mozzarella. V can beat them as npc characters in this game, but lore wise he/she wouldn't be able to stand against them.
@@zamaskowany12 there's some precedent in somebody beating Smasher 1v1 before with Morgan Blackhand. Old MB ain't even that chromed to begin with, but he's a very talented and experienced solo who literally wrote the book on it and makes his implants both practical and reliable... compared to Adam Smasher at least, Morgan is still pretty chromed by common people's standards. V was also an experience merc by the time he/she faces Smasher, can be chromed to the gills or be a heavy netrunner (backed by Blackwall AI in Alt, implied to be the reason Smasher's ICE are not that effective and he can be quickhacked) and in at least 2 of the possible endings technically didn't fight him alone. Also makes for a satisfying narrative climax to take down Smasher (gameplay-wise is another story). I do wonder how MaxTac would have handled Smasher if they ever came to blows though, might have made for a fun scenario.
@@maxi1ification They wouldn't have been able to. Before V smasher was the apex predator. If you watch the edgerunner's anime David demolishes MaxTac and then Smasher demolishes David
With how kited out V was on my save file (being able to infinitely kill the new maxtac waves on hardest difficulty) they would never need to hire again lol.
Loved when back before cyberpunk flopped we all thought it was really a "be anything game". Man I wish It still was because I'd love to be a MaxTac or a Trauma team merc
I got here late in the game with a Doom Slayer build so i killed the cyberpsycho before they got here, so when the dialogue options of "you didnt have to kill him" and "thanks" i was like oh maybe im too strong
It makes sense that the most brutal of the rapid response unit are repurposed cybers, I would not be shocked to learn that all the ones you save skip the therapy and go right into basic training at a maxtac facility. It's what I'd do, why waste a perfectly able killer when you can just wind it up tighter and point it towards other problems.
Depends who the individual is, if they're high up enough or have enough money, they might just go through therapy and pop out the other side a (relatively) functional human being again.
This Liberty DLC they announced, i really hope they have more of Melissa in it, being a cop for the good ol NUSA. Honestly, i would have said yes if it gave me a few more quests to do some work for the maxtac bois.
honestly this game is already fking ruined... but we have cyberpunk 2078 apparently... a sequel in the works... and we can only hope that is MUCH better...
@@arcanumelite4853 Doubt they're working on it. At per-production level at best right. They *had to* announce something for their investors, so Project Orion is probably not much more than an idea at the moment.
@@arshiaaghaei No, they're still correct. While I do like 2077, I hate how V is never truly your character. They have a defined voice and personality. Just imagine a Cyberpunk game in the vain as New Vegas where the main character is a player shaped hole and you could literally become anyone and join any gang.
it would be awesome if you could have actually joined max tac and become a maxtac enforcer cutting down cyberpsychos. they're really weak in the game (all things considered) but mastic is comprised of the best of the best from every type of field. There not just regular cops in maxed out equipment and cyberware but their some of the best netrunners, fighters, snipers, gunners, technicians, and pilots the npcd could ever get a hold of. the trade off is that many of people with this level expertise tend to have one or two screws loose.
You can attack her in Update 2.0: th-cam.com/video/Jss0nWX9wo0/w-d-xo.html
- Sorry for the erratic movements.
Hanako Arasaka cut content? th-cam.com/video/m7JQGBpyC-k/w-d-xo.html
How Adam Smasher sounds in different countries: th-cam.com/video/kTvhmesP8i4/w-d-xo.html
Militech Exoskeleton: th-cam.com/video/DAe_6q1C5UA/w-d-xo.html
Did you know that if you trigger police outside and manage to incapacitate Melissa Rory you can loot her Iconic Mantis Blades
@@tommyshelby111that’s cool
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"Johnny Silverhand, rock legend, voice in V's head" Man, i love Johnny
Would you have him in you’re head
How could you not, it's Keanu Reeves, everyone loves Keanu Reeves...
@SeaDee I think because it’s at a clothing store
@SeaDee Alternate outfit you can enable in the main menu (maybe even settings mid game?). Was part of one of the free updates. At least that outfit specifically, I know I've seen other Johnny appearances that I think were mods.
Gonna Love Rockstar Moistcrtikal...I mean Rockstar Keanu Reeves
IDK. I'm confused LoL
It’s surreal to actually see the lady in the trailer as a real character in-game. Kinda makes me wonder where the max-tac agent that took her in is now…
I was wondering the same thing. They looked like they shared a connection at the end of the trailer.
Not only that, but now you can kill Melissa Rory and her squad.
that never even clicked in my head
And she’s gets sick thrills with her mantis blades - just like how some of the players would.
I do have a theory that the end of the trailer takes place in 2077 and they’re on their way to the store that’s being attacked by the cyber psycho.
Melissa Rory, the ciberpsycho girl from the first ever trailer of CP2K77 that came out over a decade ago! They totally wiped her memory and turned her into a MaxTac personnel! 😞
Edit: Holy Nova! So many likes and so many valuable replies!
Edit 2: Yes! She deserves a full-fledged side-mission!
It's the same character. She was taken and rehabilitated... mostly. She obviously is still a bit psycho upstairs, but she is now with MaxTac
Most of maxtac is ex cyberpsycho. It s curable but you will be the same.
Thanks for explaining. I still remember the trailer and how it ended with them in Maxtac, but I didn't draw that conclusion seeing this.
Woah! I'm guessing that's information you can find in the game, somewhere, somehow or it's from the game's dedicated wikia/fandom page or from a statement by the devs. Either way...dayum!
The mission name is called Bullets, which was the song used in the teaser trailer.
It’s all connected.
I hope they give the next main character cool origin stories to choose from like being an ex- MaxTac, a Fixer, or an agent for Rogue AI's just to name a few.
Trauma Team would be cool.
I really wish the sequel could be about V and Johnny cuz i loved their characters but I know it's basically impossible without ruining the first game's endingd
I Hope she is in the next dlc
MaxTac are pretty much just cyber psychos in police uniform. you cant go back from psycho
I always haved the dumb idea of a milsim like shooter game where you are a trauma team or ncpd . And just dealing with the shit on the cyberpunk world.
Cheeky easter egg. Most of us know Melissa was the cyberpsycho from the original trailer. The other egg is that the name of the mission "Bullets" is also the name of the song from the original trailer
Another one I've just remembered, side mission involving blue moon from us cracks, the mission is called "every breath you take", the mission is about a stalker.
The Police (later became known as Sting) sung a song called "every breath you take" and its all about being a stalker.
Also the name of her Mantis Blade model is a reference to the date her teaser launched.
want to know another one? 20-13 is a reference of the OG Cyberpunk 2077 trailer... and from '69 to '77 is the time they took to release the game (8 years) since anounced.
Everyone knows this
@greatcoldemptiness
I didn't. No need to be dismissive for no reason
Joining MaxTac to hunt down cyberpsychos whether they be random npcs or special bosses would be a cool feature in a update.
I just noticed that there are messages from a doctor about Melissa Rory's cyberpsychosis that I found in the NCPD in one of River's missions. It seems that it is common with maxtac personnel
She was one of the cyberpsycho taken alive by Maxtac, the same lady from the promotional trailer with the mantis blade.
@@donhoicampbell3611
NO WAY
It is. They commonly use individuals that are essentially on the edge of cyber psychosis, including past psychos, that’s what it takes to stop other augged individuals
@@LewisB3217 individuals running on the edge of psychosis... edgerunners
@@OPTIMUMELITE Yeah she is + the name of the quest is called "Bullets" same as the name of the song used in that trailer
FYI you can get MaxTac helmet, jacket, and pants at Judy's apartment. After the mission Pyramid and after romancing her. They are all common rarity, but I'm positive you can upgrade them.
With the new (ish) 1.6 update you can just transmog your appearance with the wardrobe.
Do we have to romance her? I play as a dude
@@ChallengerBanX Not unless you use a console command via CET. You can set a "switch" or "flag" in the save with the command 'Game.SetDebugFact(“judy_romanceable”,1)', which will allow Male V to romance Judy and have her stay in Night City. Unintended via normal means, of course, but there is animation data and male VA work for the Judy romance scene.
@@ChallengerBanX It happens with certain quest related outfits. I.E. the scuba suit. Or if the game takes your clothes off forcefully, i.e. the sidequest where you get kidnapped and stripped of all your gear and clothes by scavs.
@@oscarlove4394 but I want the real deal. Is it too much for male V to have the MaxTac drip?
With the new dlc coming, when she asks you about wanting to join her, actually makes a little sense now
The new dlc is about militech tho?
Yeah, that feels more like a new game knot now than Phantom Liberty, given the focus on Militech.
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 It's about V working with the New United States Of America Government in places like Pacifica. So doubtful it'll involve Maxtech but it may be a possibility.
@@Ak-6969 and nusa is basically owned by militech
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 Yup, their current President is an ex-Militech CEO, and their previous Presidents were also ex Militech CEOs.
Johnny sitting looks like the Jinguji advert behind him
It would be cool if Cyberpunk had actual professions in it. Becoming a MaxTac, Trama Team member. Hell doing deliveries. I was told that even if you do all of the side missions and gigs you still will not have enough money to pay for everything in the game, as in you cannot unlock all the cars in one play through.
collect weapons and sell. I currently have 800,000 eddies after getting top shelf Cyberware. time consuming but doable. or if you have a netrunner build jack into the terminals and collect money that way
they cut alot from the original tabletop game and whats left is closer to a shooter than an rpg. Another example is adam smasher he was the tabletops tarrasque and would be called in if you pissed off the corpos (DM) enough very funny but underwhelming in game. He also killed johnny in one shot, cutting him in half with a shotgun round.
Play a crafting focused character, you'll have all the money you could ever want.
And here I was having the absolute opposite problem, more money than I had any use for.
max out your tech ability and just spend an hour or so crafting stuff till your crafting skill is level 20, respec your perk points all into the crafting tree (the crafting trees level 20 perk is +10% sell price, then 1% after that, so 30 levels into that helps) then craft, sell, buy parts from junk traders, craft, sell, repeat. did this and 100% the game my first run to get all the achievements n such
You know at first I thought keanu reeves was miss casted as Johnny but the more I played the better it got.
In all honesty, I feel like Johnny is Keanu's best work. In most of his other roles, he's pretty wooden.
Would be nice if they had an actual branching side story where you can actually join MaxTac, they already got cyberpsychos, even adding a new layer of paint to it with it like being on a maxtac response would be cool.
Hmm, might be hard. MaxTac is pretty much Corp Sponsored with the local Main Corp being Arasaka. You know the guys who want the thing in our head really bad. Might work in the "Devil" Branch?
Not even that much work. Regina pays you to get them alive, Maxtac to take them out
FYI this is the chic featured in promotional material she went cyber psycho and was wiped.
@@SankyEON yes, just have someone else, hell even rory here to report to, whenever you hunt down the psychos
@@Jeez001 omg!! That’s so cooool
I like how whatever she was holding just bugged out and disappeared
It's funnyy because people swear this game is fixed after whichever patch is released, yet I can't seem to sit through one video without obvious bugs and glitches.
@@billywashere6965 very true. That new guy that sits in the afterlife club cdpr added in with the latest patch- he's in the seat whether someone's already in it or not. When i spoke to him, he was in the chair clipping in the body of another npc who was sitting there. So i sit down and he's just talking with this lady leaning forward through his body. Lol, it was funny to look at.
@@billywashere6965 For many people, if a bug isn't game breaking or negatively effecting gameplay then it's not an issue.
The problem on release was than there where a lot of bugs that made just playing the game a pain and took a lot of the fun out of it. Nowadays most of the bugs are easily ignored or even humorous. Not to say everyone should be ok with such bugs, as they can still ruin immersion, but it's why lots of people consider it fixed.
@@MrEsphoenix I get that, it's just weird to me because I'm okay with ignoring these kind of bugs in some low-budget indie affair. It makes sense with those games. But a dude clipping through another dude because they didn't set post-entity script collision detection for entities no longer running active scripts comes across as absolute amateurish. Even Crytek had that ironed out in Crysis in very smooth ways and that's more than 15 years old at this point.
@@billywashere6965 It's a big complicated game from a smaller studio that had never done anything close to this scale. I think sometimes people struggle to understand how many complications are added into a game through something like non scripted NPC's in an open world game.
It would’ve been cool as hell if there was a whole maxtac side story line. Also would just feel right to end up being able to romance her. I feel like most RPGs have at least one or two romance or companion options that are like either morally ambiguous or just straight up bad guys, she could’ve been that for this game.
preeeeetty sure the DLC will showcase Millitec since weve just bombed tf outta arasaka, why stop at 1 major corp. about romancing her? idk about that
Also, the Max Tac lady doesn't seemed to be completely cured from cyberpsychosis, just enough for her to work on the field as she gone into detail about how it felt killing a cyber psycho that gave me the creeps.
That character is Meredith already
@@KordellCunninghamsome crazy his hot
@@ShakeyCupunfortunately no
So much of this game feels like cut content or set up for a DLC Questline.
It probably is. It's such a mess with potential, with an interesting but gimped story. It could have been so much more than merely a decent game and I HATE IT FOR THAT LOST POTENTIAL.
@@mirceazaharia2094 That's how I feel! The potential was HUGE. Shame it wasn't explored more
Imagine if the first Cyberpsycho in the anime ended up with MaxTac instead of dead. While not an Adam Smasher, guy would have been quite a menace.
Still amazed that at the end of the trailer all those years ago we see her caught and captured, and here she is working for the same Tac team that captured her! Thought she was forgotten but happy she wasn’t!
Original trailer made me think we were getting a syndicate style game centered around growing and maintaining a MaxTac squad of reconditioned cyberpsychos. I was incorrect, but man that would be a good game.
@@AParticularlyConcernedCitizen oh yeah when i watched the original trailer back in 2012 i thought much the same.
If you listen carefully the maxtec in the beginning of the anime is the same team as we see here tho. Especially her.
@AParticularlyConcernedCitizen the old Syndicate games were so good
@@AParticularlyConcernedCitizen Nice DLC idea
I'm honestly surprised. From the first trailer, I always assumed you'd play her or the guy that nailed her. This was even before I knew what Cyberpunk was.
The original plan for the game was actually gonna be you playing as a MaxTac operative dealing with cyborgs going cyberpsycho out of nowhere. Iirc, this got changed after the Wild Hunt devs got brought on after that game finished content around 2016-ish, which is when 2077 ramped up from pre-production, and then everything changed to focus more on the Punk aspect of Cyberpunk more. So yeah, the trailer was accurate at the time, in 2012, just that what the game was gonna be about totally changed.
@@selinawalsh9075 I had a hunch but I'm glad to know with certainty now that was what happened. I love what we finally got, after they fixed as much as they could of course, but I kinda miss the original concept.
Glad to see your channel growing man👍Keep it up.
Thanks man :)
I like how he mentions the model of the blades(2013's); same year the reveal trailer with her came out. Nice touch CDPR
Honestly i think it would be so cool to join Maxtac. Would be so cool to play actual detective and solve crimes in Night City and the ocassional full on assault with the companies shooting squads backing you up when you bust some criminal organisations. God knows there are plenty of them in the city
Maybe in the next game up can be either Maxtac, Trama Team or gang member.
if this was as good RPG as it was advertised then we'd be able to do it
I’m glad they made this Easter Egg and had something connect to that old trailer. Would be cool if they expounded on it more :)
Funny thing happened in my run through this mission. I knocked the psycho out with a quickhack and he went unconscious for a few moments till MaxTac came in and he just randomly died. I guess he has to die for the mission to continue lol
There's a couple missions like that, dialogue only fits death as a conclusion so they die regardless of lethal or non-lethal.
In the dialogue with Zane it is denoted that V was only holding it, but he never fainted as it was done in the gameplay. MaxTac had to arrive and kill him.
Would be pretty hard if in the expansion a MaxTac liaison is a "fixer" and will send you on jobs that MaxTac would normally go on. What with the combat zone being a place and all.
We in the og draft were supposed to be Max tac
Not really. You get calls from NCPD captains to take out gang leaders around the city. They can do the same for Max-Tac. Should have consequences though. They should send you after the same ones Regina has you save.
If you kill them you piss off Regina. If you save them, you piss off Max-Tac
(all of the jobs are in Pacifica)
but all of maxtec are cyberpsychos... and V isn't a cyberpsycho no matter how much you add to your character... im a fking netrunning god that can mow down an entire building full of people in seconds without firing a single shot... and somehow still not a cyberpsycho lol...
@@arcanumelite4853 we are cyberpsycho, Just not late stage. You get the anger. The random attacks...etc. just due to Johnny you reign it in better than most
She has such a beautiful sounding name. Melissa Rory. Just rolls of the tongue.
She's already perfect, nothing there to fix
I wish there was a story line that let you play as morally good law enforcer in an overwhelming corrupt system
Play as female V and do River's romance storyline! It's... kinda what you want? Sorta?
I don't think that would be very "punk" of them to have a cop that's morally good lol. Ya know, ACAB.
@@taintedmyth0s636 it could be like Miami vice.. actually I guess not
@@taintedmyth0s636 But there are good cops in the game. River. Those guys who ask about Barry. The one you have to kill or make disappear for Regina. Probably bunch more I forgot about.
wow just when I thought this game couldn't get more unrealistic
FYI this is the chic featured in promotional material, she went cyber psycho and was wiped.
2:04 Paint me like one of your cyber-french women.
What the hell did you to do Johnny? Hes got the same goofy haircut the elves got in Rings of Power.
LOL. I just set the the alternate outfit from cdpr.
In my playthough I let Zane do the talking, when he messaged me, the messages were cordial and stuff like "Ahh V thanks for saving my life and stuff and here have a discount". Would've been nice if the dialogue was a little different for interrupting him, sarcastically thanking him and calling his offer shit.
Normal people during dialogue:
This guy: Slide to left, slide to the right, crisscross, crisscross, now cha-cha yall.
There's so much stuff in this game I've never seen. It's actually a masterpiece after being patched.
eh
wouldn't say masterpiece, but it's a game you can play now
Lol yep
100% this was originally intended as a way to join MaxTac/NCPD before they had to cut content/crunch before release. Just like with the 6th Street target practice mission, V's straight up offered a position and only able to answer "no" or "no, but rude."
I'd be willing to bet that the CyberPsycho contracts you get from Regina were initially part of a MaxTac Job questline but shunted over to Regina once they figured they wouldn't have time to include quests for joinable factions like gangs, MaxTac, or the NCPD.
best cyberpunk wifu, change my mind
if u kill her in that time, u get unique mantis blade,
did i change ur mind?
Rory was the woman in the trailer few years ago. Imo cyberpsychosis is treatable but the government wont tell that to the public because then they'd try to get help from their own psychosis problems. I assume the treatment is very very VERY expensive, probably why they all say "when they go psycho they are dead/lost".
You gotta stand still in these dialogue bits, or at least switch to walk. As neat as this was
Ikr, he just looking and walking around for no reason
I remember that mission. Managed to bring the psycho to 10% hp and it wouldn't go down further. Guess it's scripted to not allow you to finish him off yourself.
Shame we never gonna have MaxTac expansion in Cyberpunk 2077, they deserve more missions, more lore.
Wouldnt be surprised if you play as a Max Tac on the sequel
@@edco2012 Well, that was the original draft of the game. Wouldn't rule it out, but wouldn't get my hopes up either.
@@ChadVulpes well atlest they got a *FAT BOSS LEVEL BUFF*
@@mrnohax5436 I think MaxTac is awesome now.
Joining up with maxtac or having a corpo storyline would be pretty cool I'd like to think
“I can fix her”
"I said SIT."
yes ma'am
Pretty sure liking how the feel of flesh and blood is a symptom of cyber psychosis lmao
I CAN FIX HER I SWEAR
This should've led to a Side Biz where you get some missions from Melissa Rory and unravel the truth that happened all those years ago. Maybe even have a situation where she gets over-stimulated and her cyberpsychosis returns and then you either have to put her down or detain her yet again.
Yknow, it would've been cool to hear from her at the end of the game with all those voice messages, since joining MaxTac sounds fucking nice for a story.
If you get MaxTac called on you she will appear and come at you with those Blades. If you can scan her while she's charging it says Melissa Rory. Pretty neat. She took my Bing shotgun to the chest though..............
You just can’t sit still for 2 seconds
I love that the psycho's corpses leg is casually draped over zane's
Johnny Silverhand’s body a cop?
Silverhand: Not on my watch!!!! Not on my watch!!!!
Bro folded like that is the reason I love this game
I liked her better without all the clothes.
They did say some MaxTac things are coming with the next patch, before the xpac.
Maybe this questline continues? We get to join MaxTac for a questline? Would be dope af
I recall something about this being a placeholder/starter quest for maxtac content when they add more. Memory is a bit fuzzy but I think one of the devs brought it up on stream sometime just after launch.
@@cryovictum Sounds really plausible, especially since they updated it now on the last patch
Hope so, that the next patch is not just an inproved wanted system, don't like playing psycho in games going around killing people outside quests
Melissa Rory romance questline confirmed. Bloodthirsty Psycho GF > Angry Caring GF any day.
@@AParticularlyConcernedCitizen do have a link/source for where you heard that by chance? cause thats exciting af lol
This is beautifully crafted dialogue, the exact moment where you realize “Oh shit, she’s a cyber psycho” is brilliant
We should have a dlc with a feature for everyone where you can join gangs, and maxtac or NCPD, but if you kill them you get kicked out and become more hostile toward you. And the feature is for everyone, with dlc or not
You know, I'm hoping the second cyberpunk is going to be better, because there's too many storylines that we didn't get. And it's understandable when it comes to making the engine better and adding so much of the story, but there's so much potential here.
I like that they basically only tease you with joining gangs or the police. Like they want to remind you it's not a real RPG like the table top.
Not a single CDPR RPG has been the way you described. You set yourself up for disappointment.
@@ChadVulpesThose other games were based on books with a set story and cyberpunk is a TRPG they are very different from each other. Also they said life paths would matter
@@HumanB312 None of this changes the fact that CDPR never made this kind of game, and there was no reason to believe that they would. Every company pushes all kinds of bullshit to get you to buy their product.
I like how Johnny sits just above the dead carcass to make it appear like he's avoiding it.
I know she is psychotic but I really wanted to have a romance option for her even before knowing about that near decade old trailer.
A Meredith romance option.
That'd be fun, especially since she's a cyberpsycho, might even be willing to go on a suicide run with you through Arasaka.
Tech is the first attribute I max because of the cradling bonuses, being able to make tons of Eddie's and some good threads
What should I do on my first playthrough?
That dialogue interrupt was timed perfeclty.
johnny always playing the rock legend card even tho the only one who's still famous af from his old band is kerry eurodyne and nearly nobody knows who johnny is lmao
Johnny Silverhand literally is legend in the game
Bugging big dawg
Well, most people in Night City probably do know who he is, but probably more as a terrorist than as a rock star xD
Bro what in my game half of the Malestorm gang is wearing Johnny Silverhand / Samurai T-shirts and merch
He's a famous merc who's hook was that he was also a famous rocker in a world where reputation is everything, so of course he plays off that.
OH MY GOD STAND STILL FOR ONE FUCKING SECOND
She talking like V cant just wipe them out as well
No one beats maxtac. They're too efficient canon wise. They're trained to take out cyberpsychos who are augmented to hell with all kinds of crazy cyberware and have crazy weaponry that shreds them like mozzarella. V can beat them as npc characters in this game, but lore wise he/she wouldn't be able to stand against them.
@@LandofBrickForests Lorewise he shouldn't be able to kill Smasher either and here we are
@@zamaskowany12 there's some precedent in somebody beating Smasher 1v1 before with Morgan Blackhand.
Old MB ain't even that chromed to begin with, but he's a very talented and experienced solo who literally wrote the book on it and makes his implants both practical and reliable... compared to Adam Smasher at least, Morgan is still pretty chromed by common people's standards.
V was also an experience merc by the time he/she faces Smasher, can be chromed to the gills or be a heavy netrunner (backed by Blackwall AI in Alt, implied to be the reason Smasher's ICE are not that effective and he can be quickhacked) and in at least 2 of the possible endings technically didn't fight him alone. Also makes for a satisfying narrative climax to take down Smasher (gameplay-wise is another story).
I do wonder how MaxTac would have handled Smasher if they ever came to blows though, might have made for a fun scenario.
@@zamaskowany12 That's correct. But since he's a boss in the game, he had to be beatable.
@@maxi1ification They wouldn't have been able to. Before V smasher was the apex predator. If you watch the edgerunner's anime David demolishes MaxTac and then Smasher demolishes David
With how kited out V was on my save file (being able to infinitely kill the new maxtac waves on hardest difficulty) they would never need to hire again lol.
I don't know why but she attracts me big time. Or maybe it's my broken psyche.
2:35 I feel like the model of mellisa's mantis blades is a reference to the trailer which was released in 2013
Because it is her lmao
she should have gave him the digits so he could have smashed later... lol😆
ive only just now noticed the mission's title is the same as the song from the original teaser. still gives me chills.
I like how the psycho is just lifeless right next to them
Johnny’s year 2077 outfit lowkey goes hard
Really thought she’d be the main protagonist after the first teaser for this game
I took her mantis blades! The police don’t play , I had to dash before maxtac got there😭
Of all the side quests I saw have possible Orion outcomes I really hope V in Maxtac is possible
Loved when back before cyberpunk flopped we all thought it was really a "be anything game". Man I wish It still was because I'd love to be a MaxTac or a Trauma team merc
She should be a romance option. Definitely 10/10 waifu material.
Not even sure if she's capable of that at this point.
lmao is there even a characer in this game that doesn't have people thirsting over them?
@@ChadVulpes no
She's cute. Lol. Even for a psycho.
@@ChadVulpes Yeah its Claire the bartender , fat ass dolphin. It gets better and better after you learned she was actually a "he" before.
Ngl I love her Mantis blades at first I thought they were very basic, but then I was looking more into them and they’re actually pretty detailed
I got here late in the game with a Doom Slayer build so i killed the cyberpsycho before they got here, so when the dialogue options of "you didnt have to kill him" and "thanks" i was like oh maybe im too strong
bro that psycho died trying to impress Zane with his musical theater act.
love how zane just has a dead man's leg resting on him
V being a cop would definitely lower the crime rate.
"But you´re with the good guys now, right?" "Don´t change the subject" I love the writing.
HEY! when a Maxtac enforcer tells you to sit down, YOU SIT DOWN. 😆
V called her babe and she didnt even get mad .... damn V rizzing
omg half the dialogue options result in the answer in the same tone of voice even!
MAXTAC: Oh shit where is my iPad
So this is an unmarked quest? damn, I missed it, I wonder how many others would be
Zane really loves his job.
Figured it was the girl from the very first CP 2077 teaser when I saw her. I was like, "Holy shit! Wait, is that her??"
It's weird how the dialogue is the same even if you defeat the cuberpsycho before maxtac shows up
I'm guessing she was also on the list of cut content for romances other cyberpsychos gigs
It's an Easteregg from the first trailer so I doubt that much was ever planned for her
lol everything in this game is cut content for you people
It makes sense that the most brutal of the rapid response unit are repurposed cybers, I would not be shocked to learn that all the ones you save skip the therapy and go right into basic training at a maxtac facility.
It's what I'd do, why waste a perfectly able killer when you can just wind it up tighter and point it towards other problems.
Depends who the individual is, if they're high up enough or have enough money, they might just go through therapy and pop out the other side a (relatively) functional human being again.
Some degree of therapy is a necessity. Most likely, they're also pumped full of drugs.
@@ohauss Said therapy also includes stripping out all but the absolutely essential cybernetics and sticking them in a braindance.
I remember the first trailer for cyberpunk 2077 and I think this is the same same chick with the Mantis blades
Man If i lived in the cyberpunk universe id do anything to get with that Maxtac lieutenant. Probably get myself into her medical care
This Liberty DLC they announced, i really hope they have more of Melissa in it, being a cop for the good ol NUSA. Honestly, i would have said yes if it gave me a few more quests to do some work for the maxtac bois.
honestly this game is already fking ruined... but we have cyberpunk 2078 apparently... a sequel in the works... and we can only hope that is MUCH better...
@@arcanumelite4853 Doubt they're working on it. At per-production level at best right. They *had to* announce something for their investors, so Project Orion is probably not much more than an idea at the moment.
@@arcanumelite4853 Aged like fine milk
@@arshiaaghaei No, they're still correct. While I do like 2077, I hate how V is never truly your character. They have a defined voice and personality. Just imagine a Cyberpunk game in the vain as New Vegas where the main character is a player shaped hole and you could literally become anyone and join any gang.
@@theobell2002 You still have the choice to join the villains in both the basegame and the DLC. Also the silent protagonist trope is kinda aged now.
Max Tac V would actually be kinda sick to play as, and the questlines, bruh.
Dr Evil: We're not so different, you and I
Rory: I said sit!
V: What if i said i just went on murder rampage and killed somewhere around 30 maxtac units just to test out my new chrome?
it would be awesome if you could have actually joined max tac and become a maxtac enforcer cutting down cyberpsychos. they're really weak in the game (all things considered) but mastic is comprised of the best of the best from every type of field. There not just regular cops in maxed out equipment and cyberware but their some of the best netrunners, fighters, snipers, gunners, technicians, and pilots the npcd could ever get a hold of. the trade off is that many of people with this level expertise tend to have one or two screws loose.