Hope you all enjoyed this video, all recorded in the new Overdrive update so hopefully it looks good! Let me know what you think and your thoughts on MaxTac!
I think MAXTAC is the second most interesting group in cyberpunk right behind trauma team, there so many potential story lines that can be told from these two groups alone, hopefully they will play a major role in future games .
If taken into account how many people V has killed during the game in so many different ways, despite the fact that those were mostly gang members, one might say that V is a high functioning cyberpsycho, with a solo assault on Arasaka tower as the final accord. Johnny Silverhand was V's cyberpsychosis.
In my game I basically play on the level of MAX-TAC while rocking their gear. Hey, if they ask me to join them and the prompts don't let me other than for a vague "maybe", I'll take anything I can get.
@@jkaeqpo400 There are three collections out from dark horse publishing. You have my word, trauma team and blackout. The individual paperbacks are out of print as far as I can tell but there is a hardcover coming out that will have all of them that you can preorder now. The table top game has a bunch of lore books as well that are really interesting.
I recently listened to the audiobook of No Coincidence. It's a solid 6.5-7 out of 10. pretty fun, but the flow of storytelling can be quite confusing due to the constant perspective shift.@@grindorere7725
@@kotorandcorvid4968 doesn’t sound like it’ll work They’re meant to be highly elite, cyber psychosis recovered soldiers It’s more like, the character ends up there at some point rather than starting in it Then it turns out they’re all mind controlled or some bs like that
@@OfAngelsAndAnarchist MaxTac members are noted to be very dedicated to wipe out all cyberpsychos. Many of them likely have personal reasons, so a person dedicating their life to a singular goal caused by hatred (and losing their humanity in the process) would work. It's not mentioned that all members are ex cyberpsychos. But if they were, that would also have a lot of potential. A former psycho finding a new purpose in a new life, with their psyche irreversibly scarred.
@@kotorandcorvid4968 pretty sure it’s explicitly stated Otherwise they would not be able to keep up with a cyberpsycho Dw man, just leave the writing to people who think shit through better
I've always had this suspicion that Regina's cyberpsycho missions are just a way for MaxTac to recruit people. Which is why they're preferred to be captured alive.
She did say they were explicitly to try and find a cure for cyberpsychosis MaxTac might have some correlations since keeping your troops sane but still borged up would be immensely beneficial to them. But other than maybe funding or behind the shadows, I doubt they're straight up turning the living cyberpsychos into MaxTac
I always thought MaxTac were a deadly unit but never expected them to have Cyberpsychos in their ranks. These troops are without down the best of the best at their job but also ticking time bombs ready to blow at any moment. Just damn the Cyberpunk universe is brutal but I love the universe. With that said amazing video on the deadliest unit in Cyberpunk. Keep up the great work!
If you want more, track down a PDF of Cyberpunk 2020's "Protect and Serve" book, they talk about Max Tac a good deal there. I believe the core book does as well
I’d say that MaxTac are in many respects high-functioning psychos (like Adam Smasher) who “get their high” from fighting and killing other cyberpsychos. Some claim that they’re “cured”, but I honestly don’t fully believe that.
I got caught by maxtac once, trying to get the sandy mk3 from a cyberpsycho encounter. Shot a civ by accident, a couple cops who made the encounter much more difficult at my very high level *of 7* and very quickly I decided, *I'm never killing a cop again* They had me pinned in a corner huffing bounce back like I was asthmatic panic shooting the walls every time a pixel changed colour
@@sitrueis4007early game they are due to their matrix like move but it quickly change once you hit 30, you should be on par with them.. heck i demolish them with legendary gorilla arms
I remember getting caught by MaxTac once and being the buffoon that I am, I decided it's a good idea to fight them. The good idea turned out to be a awful one.
They become OP once you hit past level 51, each one feel like you’re fighting somebody with your build.. the net runners are insanely OP, everytime they shut my cyberware down, but my second heart, and pump, plus cyberpsycho(Fury) puts me over the edge vs them for a few waves.. I don’t have a Sandy, Berserker, or Quick Hack deck.. just Chrome.. I took off the training wheels, I’m pure chrome, no slowing time down with a press of a button, No Berserker rage , or making them commit Minecraft.. just pure chrome with Gorilla Arms, my World Breaker Hulk Build.
Did you play any of the optional missions from Regina (lady with the eye patch)? You got MANY chances to fight Cyberpsychos. In fact you could say it was even more intense since you are NOT Maxtac, but just going in with what an Ex-corpo(street kid/nomad) could get his/her hands on.
@@HalfBreedMixOh yeah the mission with a boring story and boring conclusion for a grand total of 7 minutes? Very exciting. As well you can’t unalive them without suffering from negatives due to Regina. The encounters suck in base 2077 at least compared to what we could get as being MAXTAC, plus it’d be way more awesome
A city abandon by God’s would have a special police force made up of cyberpsychos that would be very happy to rip and tear anything that’s near the vicinity of a fellow cyberpsycho. Night city citizens truly are in safe hands.😺
I ran a Cyberpunk: Red game where I had the unlucky Chooms in the gang wake up under the care of MaxTac. Turns out, each of them went Cyberpsycho badly enough that MaxTac was called, and as a way to treat their psychosis their memories of how they got there were suppressed. Now, in order to pay for their rehabilitation (and also, as a screening process for becoming possible MaxTac Agents) they had to go track down a Ripperdoc who was suspected of giving purposely faulty cyberware to create Cyberpsychos - with each person in the new MaxTac unit (Unit title: Rip-Off) being someone who was fed faulty chrome from this Ripper. I love that you brought up how MaxTac has some of the only true "rehabilitating" tech out there. Makes them an interesting entity as they take down the very people they "could" help. A caring, yet incredibly bottom-line ruthless organization.
With the ammount of modifications that MaxTac agents have and they must know that most of them are dancing on the verge of cyberpsicosis, I believe they must have some sort of failsafe in their gear, like a killswitch or something in the helmet that could help their peers deal with a rogue agent.
You can actually find a shard in game that's an excerpt from a book written by a max tac officer talking about this very concept. He basically says that becoming a cyber psycho scares them more than anything.
@@Unknown-ek1oxMaybe, I think Corpo V is shown to have a therapist so clearly mental health is taken seriously if there's enough money or the patient is valuable enough. I imagine maxtac officers, especially "ex" cyberpsychos would be under constant surveillance and have access to the best medical or mental health services
I felt like it was a big let down when we didn't get any MAXTAC missions or even the option to join MAXTAC I don't know what the hell cdpr was thinking such a missed opportunity with both MAXTAC and trauma team .
Imagine the opportunity with the fact if you kill a corporat and the trauma team comes he was a trauma team customer and having to defend yourself from the coming trauma team
CP2077 is just nothing but missed opportunity. But then again it Had it's own story it was following and IMO should have tighter up and focused more on that. The world is way to big in the lore sense that each Faction or setting can be it's own game. Streetkidd, Nomads, and Corps are Big enough that they could each get their own Skyrim level game. CYBERPUNK STREETKIDS, could be a game focused on well. A streetkid. Growing in the city around the gangs and police. Be one of the gang or Help put a stop to the rampages. NOMADS, focus on the clans. Inside and out the city in the badlands. Learn what it means to be family. CORPORATION, focus on the corporations and their environment. Join Militech or Arasaka(or hell a new startup) and you crawl and claw your way up the corporate ladder. Do you help the small company become a big dog or will it be crushed under your boot as you stand on the shoulders of Giants?
I had this thought so many times playing. How could they not have you interact even just a little bit with MAXTAC or Trama Team. Trauma Team also suffers the same thing. Maybe in future DLC =\
It comes down to development problems at the end of the day. You can find good documentaries on TH-cam talking about the lack of people calling the shots on what aspects of the game needed to be hammered out and which to get cut, on top of trying to develop for as many platforms as possible and developing a new game engine for the game...while the game itself is being made on a work in progress game engine. They were riding the high of witcher 3 and paid the price
Max-Tac: We’ll always be here to protect you. That is, unless you get in the way of our protection. In which case, there will be no one left to protect you from us…
It's funny how V always throws a spanner in the Cyberpunk universe's power scaling. MaxTac have to be absolitely chromed out to fight cyberpsychos but V can fight them alone while wearing fairly minimal chrome. Borgs are supposedly insanely strong, moreso that basically any non-borg barring very few exceptions, but V can take them down fairly easily. Using a Sandevistan too frequently can have devastating consequences on a person but V uses them with nearly no cooldown. MaxTac has an astonishingly high success rate in neutralizing cyberpsychos but V, if played like a psycho, could have an astonishingly high success rate in neutralizing MaxTac. They truly gave us an insane power level in this game.
Yeah i wish the game showed you get more borged out. Look at David he’s a literal mech with better gear than v yet gets stomped by Adam smasher. V destroys Adam smasher low diff in the actual game it makes no sense
Well a few things Kind of absolutely confirm that v is special 1: he’s got a chip that can resurrect his dead body multiple times and it’s implied that he got at least a little chromed up. Even if he isn’t full borg he’d have all of his body reinforced with top of the line stuff. 2: Even before the relic it’s fair to say that v was a competent merc considering they earned a name for themselves in a relatively short amount of time. So like v is special but no more so then any of the other legendary figures in cyberpunk.
MaxTac would make for a FANTASTIC DLC. Everything about this group fit perfectly with the dystopian nature of this franchise and there is so much potential from both narrative and gameplay perspective.
It's cool that if you kill Melissa Rory, you can loot her mantis blades. That sounds like a terrible idea, but they look really cool. Just know that the fight is tough, as you're cornered in a store with basically no cover and swarmed with MaxTac units.
If they were still planning on updates or ever get the manpower to put out updates, itd be cool to get an expansion on different lifepaths, possibly only on ng+
You know when the first trailer for cyberpunk came out I thought that we would be playing as a member of maxtac. Like we’d play a badass cybernetic supercop, That hunted down rogue cyborgs bladerunner style. Maybe we could try to reconcile with our humanity despite us being what we are. Maybe we could choose to be absolute psychopaths. Or maybe we could end up to be on the wrong side of the law and be chased by our former maxtac people because we were set up by corrupt people in night city. Then they revealed V as the PC
The original story I believe was about MaxTac but instead they changed it to the idea of cyberpsycosis and the relic. I do enjoy Vs story but damn I wished for more MaxTac and medical team
@@WiseFish Imagine if they'd combo'd both of those things, V starts getting cyberpsycosis from years of stress and guilt as a max tac unit, you get to witness the slow at first then rapid break down in V as well as the city continuing to deteriorate around you.
MaxTac sounds insane. Like who is running the whole thing ? Why do they have the capability to rehabilitate (repurpose) cyberpsychos ? Mysterious, might be the most powerful faction in the game.
MaxTac is run by the NCPD. Worth noting is that MaxTac and it's leadership isn't inherently corrupt to the core, unlike more or less every other public organisation because everyone understands the severity and pure randomness of the Cyberpsychosis threat. They have the capability because someone has to neutralise the cyberpsycho threat and they have proven themselves (100% success rate) to be effective. Arasaka is the most powerful faction in the game because they have a massive supercarrier, the Kujira moored in the city harbour. Militech is a close second. Both of them have and operate actual militaries with top-of-the-line equipment they themselves manufacture, unlike the NCPD who purchases their equipment from suppliers, such as Arasaka and Militech.
I really wish that Melissa Rory would have had her own quest line where we get to explore her background more. Maxtac is the most underrated group in the lore IMO.
Whenever I think of the BD V finds, I always think of a quote from David's Ripper.. "A cautionary tale.. for the next dreamer.." it seems V was that dreamer..
We may just have gotten that if they didn't do the whole game (plot) from scratch for the Johnny stuff instead. Well, maybe the DLC will miraculously add a way to do radiant quests for MAX-TAC.
Tbh a single squad will do the job. Adam is just heavily armed and experienced veteran. Don't think he is really that broken when compared to end game / maxtac level. The cyberpsycho in edgerunner (owner of David's sandi) is also a war vet, can't handle a squad of maxtac as well
@@kaison12205Smasher could probably take a few MaxTac out himself. Great self-ICE. Would probably take two or three squads to bring him down - unless they’re readily there with AT-4s or something that would wipe him with one HEAT round.
Learning about this stuff REALLY increases the enjoyment I get out of a game. The experience is analogous to hearing a funny joke vs. hearing an inside joke. The more you know, the better a joke becomes.
My father was a career member of MaxTech. He always had a lot of really fascinating stories to tell, even though there was so much more he either wasn't allowed to talk about, or were so disturbing that he'd be visably shaken and refuse to get into. Got a lot of respect for that man.
I liked their black gear and the way they gone away with flipping nods and just made them part of their helmet it looks so cool I forgot their name at first but watching them one shot some punks in the early game scene nailed how crazy powerful they were when it took a magazine of a shitty unity to kill a scav at first
I'd actually like either a DLC or a sequel/ spin-off game where we can join Max-tac where our decisions lead to us either going cyber-psycho or not. I've always thought Max-tac was an interesting force despite not actually encountering them much in the game, but I'd still love to know more about them.
Thanks to the new 2.0 update in Cyberpunk 2077 with the update for the police system, I've had the pleasure of meeting MaxTac several times now and what can I say........ They beat me up good
Max-Tac Policy of shot and Shot again IS probably one reason why the psychoattacks keep coming. The ones WHO are still Same enough to realize the onset of psychosis are very disinclinded to seek Help because that will likely be in the Form of a bullet.
A Whole precinct or a legion of rogue max-tac cyber psychos, as if cyber psychos weren't terrifying enough. With the right hackers/netrunners, etc in the cyberpunk 2077 universe, that could very well be a scenario. Good video!
Had my first encounter with MaxTac in the game yesterday and they were bloody terrifying. I killed Melissa Rory for her mantis blades after the Bullets quest and they chased me down for 20-30 minutes as I scrambled to lose the heat. They kept destroying every single car I got in leading to me having to scramble to find new vehicles every few minutes. It took me going deep off road in the badlands for them to finally lose my trail. I've seen Edgerunners and knew they were the best of the best but I did not expect it to carry into the game so well. Definitely one of the best experiences I've had in a game in the last few years.
Great vid. Gotta say I love the guy who told his wife, 'hey if I go crazy, dump a clip in me.' I hope he doesn't have any night terrors or bad dreams cause MaxTac will need to look for a replacement.
It's funny how they are so fearless and straight OP that not even the Corpos try to take over them, unlike NCPD, leaving them alone, fighting other cyberpsychos I would love more Melissa and V content in the announced Sequel, maybe even with Melissa explaining to V how she was reabilitated from her Cyberpsycosis...
Read a couple of Shadowrun novels in my 20's. Am pleasantly surprised by how much I'm enjoying the Cyberpunk Netflix series. I love living in the future that is 2022!
In 2.0 maxtac are fucking monsters Especially when they arrive in their av you just get that loud siren basically saying "Congratulations! We are here to fuck your life up"
If there's something psycho In your neighborhood Who you gonna call? Max-Tac! If there's something weird And it don't look nova Who you gonna call? Max-Tac!
9:28 This should be lead to the MAXTAC ENDING for V. (five missions against advanced adversaries and the final action with killed nomads (portrayed as "resistance like" insectoids) in V's Mind...
You overlooked one aspect of Cyberpsychosis that is very important. But thats ok since it was basically sidelined in the game and anime: Psychological trauma. The high ammount of cases of cyberpsychosis are directly linked to the psychological trauma people experience in Night City's daily struggle. A life of crime ridden streets, backstabbing politics, merciless business and human drama and violence around every corner. In the Pen&Paper Original, you had a "humanity"-Counter wich, if it dropped to 0, would make you a cyberpsycho. And that humanity counter was under constant strain from the implants you bought, the potential crimes you comitted, the violence you saw and the trauma you received and caused. So in the original, it was not just the Chrome, it also was the dystopian hell of Night City, wich caused Cyberpsychosis. Thats why its so hard to rehabilitate cyberpsychos. What made them snap is often not just the chrome. It is Nightcity itself. love your videos and you really made me excited about cyberpunk again. Im giving it another shot!
I always wonder how the hell do they get new members if they go full lethal on any and all forces their called on for? Do they kill them, ask for Arasaka to use the relic on them and use it to make a new soldier who doesn’t care about how many implants they get?
Just found your channel and this is the content I have been wanting. From Pondsmith's original work to CDPR interpretation, there is so much more and so many stories to tell. Definitely got a subscriber now
I would love a Cyberpunk game, in which we would be an NCPD character, with the possibility of being corrupt or not and with the chance of being a member of MaxTac.
I have a feeling MaxTac didnt kill Melissa since she became docile after the killings, aka she was no longer hostile. Had Melissa turned the Mantis blades on MaxTac, she would have had her brain turned into a fine mist
This. It's about how much in control the psycho is able to regain. It's basically mental issues, with proper treatment one can recover, though borderline. Melissa is still a sadistic person from her lines even though she is in control
Does nobody else realize that the cyber psychotic From the edge runner show. Is named james norris. Is that last name. Norris. How he was able to tear through tons of people like it was nothing.Doesn't that remind you of another man with the last name of norris first name chuck
Fun fact if you kill Melissa and somehow get away from maxtac afterward she will drop her 2013 mantis blades and you can equip them I don’t think they make you go crazy in game tho. I got it because I had the best sandevistian and double jump combined with dash.
I can’t exactly explain why I love this game+anime so much-it makes me feel like a masochist lol. Never have I had a game make such a fool of me, my decisions or even my moral compass. It constantly proves to me over and over that there are no such things as happy endings, only a sense of freedom. I fell down this rabbit hole on my first play through, meeting Melissa and wondering wtf? Up to this point, I had been saving/loading my games MULTIPLE times to leave all the cyberpsycho’s alive…because I can’t help but see Maine and David. But learning that THIS was their real ‘help and recovery’ killed me inside. I thought I was helping them, desperately wanted to BELIEVE there could be-but once again I felt shit on. Like….you’re no hero V….you just keep proving you’re the biggest fucking gonk in Night City. 😭😭😭😭☠️
A friend of mine came up with a theory about James that I honestly adore and fits with what we see in Cyberpunk 2077. When you go around hunting Cyber-psychos, you need to find out just WHAT made them snap and send the detes to Regina. Now, mind you, though I think the implants DO help a BIT to cause Cyber-psychosis, it seems like what REALLY causes it is the STRESS these people go through. Like... going postal basically. Life constantly crushing on top of them will eventually have their toll. Now, as for the theory he came up with James: It wasn't simply a "burst of violence". James was way too well prepared. He bought a whole ARSENAL with him. When we first see him, he's looking down, as if he's internally preparing himself for something big. Yes, we do believe he's suffering from Cyber-Psychosis, but not the "kill everything in sight" type. What my friend theorized is that James pretty much committed "suicide by cop". James went all the way to the Corpo Plaza, armed to teeth, apparently not having killed anybody on his way there. And only truly started killing once he found some police. Now, with all the crime and killings in Night City, there's not always a GARUANTEE the police will show up to stop them. You can see that as you play the Cyberpsycho missions in Cyberpunk 2077, neither the police NOR Max-Tac show up before V, which suggests that the Police would rather not get involved and Max-Tac takes a while to get notified. Now, the Police does show up every once in a while in the form of corpses in a FEW Cyberpsycho sightings, but not all, so James decides to make the process quicker and just go right for somewhere with high police activity to start his massacre, aimed SOLELY at cops by the way, which would prompt the Police to call Max-Tac WAY faster than they normally would. Now, you must be wondering "Okay, if James wanted to die so bad, why didn't he just off himself?" We see the very reason the moment the police starts firing at James. He was essentially bullet-proof. Nothing they did could even BEGIN to damage him at all, no matter how many rounds they spent on him. We had a fuckton of cops just magdumping him and he quite literally did not even flinch. Not to mention that considering his use of the sandervistan, and his fighting style, along with body language, he's still calm and somewhat AWARE of what he's doing. It doesn't look like a "manic episode", he seems like he's in full control of his body during this mess. Thing is: Because his body is essentially a TANK now, normal weapons just won't do. He can't just pop a bullet in his own head because it'll just bounce off. He KNOWS Max-Tac is the only thing that can put him out of his misery and he KNOWS he has to do something BIG for Max-Tac to take notice and come end him. Which is why we think when got taken down by Max-Tac, instead of trying to escape in any way, like he was so expertedly using his Sandervistan before Max-Tac's arrival, he just started shooting at will, even though his bullets were clearly doing jack to Max-Tac's advanced armor. It really puts into perspective how interesting Cyber-Psychos are. All the years in the military probably made the guy snap and decide to suicide by Max-Tac.
That, or he went on power trip, believing himself to be unkillable, maybe even unable to comprehend the idea of him dying. To me it felt like he was trying to provoke Max-Tac, targeting police officers to make sure Max-Tac would arrive sooner. This was definitely a premeditated thing, and it's hard to tell if it was a suicide, or if it was just search of a thrill of the challenge.
I love the cyberpunk lore videos you make, and I greatly appreciate that you put some on Spotify. Could you add more onto Spotify? I tend to listen while I'm driving or doing other activities.
i had this idee of a DLC that could be awesome for Cyberpunk. imagine a sort of Game Arcade, but with modified Braindances instead of arcade machines or VR games. but it is also a hidden testing ground for a Braindance Controller System. imagine, you go in as V, you go into a Experimental Modified Interactive Braindance, and you get to controll the person in the Braindance, and do whatever you want. you always wake up in a room, and have to go outside and do whatever you wish from thereon. but after V starts killing people for fun in the interactive Braindance, some days go by and he/she suddenly notices the news talking in grim detail about what he/she had just witnessed in the interactive braindance. now V is curious, and goes out of his/her way to find out what really happened, but because of what he/she did, MaxTac is now after him/her, so he/she has to dodge them as well as contracted mercs to find out what actually happened and to clear his/her name. the idea of MaxTac going after him, or her depending on gender of chosen player respectively, is that in the Braindance, he/she shouted out as he/she killed people who he/she was, and that prompted them to go after him/her.
Remember that datashards are written by people (I'm referring to in-game characters not people irl), and therefore aren't always exactly true, either because the author doesn't have all the information, the author has incorrect information, or (and this will always happen to some extent) the author's biases make their way into the writing. My point is I don't think that every maxtac operative is a cyberpsycho, and that the author was probably over exaggerating, even if only a little
@@WiseFish I mean that intro when you're driving with Jackie they are some badasses, taking care of those psychos like they where nothing with some extreme proficiency but, I wish that translated into gameplay maybe I would commit less crimes in gameplay.
Main reason IS that the Police comes in dropplets instead of waves. You dont even realise that you fighting max tac Most of the time. They should come in in the avs with Styll
Considering that David’s XBD and logo are found in one alleyway, wouldn’t it have been cool and made more sense if that’s where you got the militech apogee sandy in 2.0 instead of a random side gig?
Everyone bangs on about max tac but if you play the game there are militech soldiers with the same sort of gear but upgraded to widthstand harsher conditions and they likely have better training and support to as they are an actual army. Same glowing wire things on their arms (likely linear frames) and same sort of eye covering headsets only in a helmet form with a sort of blast shield cover.
that's because militech is one of the biggest corps in the world and specializes in, well, military grade tech. nobody bangs on about them because it's simply expected they would have walking tank cyborgs loaded down with super weaponry. it's as obvious as saying the US military has nukes. people talk about Maxtac because these are, ostensibly, "police". they are expected to deal with the public and are called out into public places all the time. meanwhile, those militec cyborgs are basically only ever going to be involved in Militech matters. the average person would never see one of them unless they went to a Militech base or somehow got involved in a militech operation(extremely unlikely).
@Criminalupper2200 if that were true people in the real world would talk more about swat teams than special forces like the SAS or navy seals. But they don't.
@@Bikeadelic people in Cyberpunk talk about Maxtac because they have way more exposure. people irl are not seeing SWAT gunfights all the time that kills dozens of people. as was said in the video, Maxtac has an around 90% kill rate. they show up and they just start shooting. irl most of the stuff a swat team might do is maybe kick down a door to search a house in most cases.
@Criminalupper2200 the idea people would just forget about special forces is stupid. Again using your theory people irl would think gangs are top dog or something. Max tach would be weenies compared to militech or arasaka sf
@@Bikeadelic and as I said in a different comment, nobody actually cares about that because you're never going to SEE a militech or Arasaka elite cyborg, unless you for some reason are at one of their high security bases ofr are one of the very, very few people to be somehow involved in very high end corp operations(they don't bring these guys out for any random wetwork) as a night city citizen, your odds of getting blasted in the crossfire of a Maxtac raid are INFINITELY greater than you ever running afoul or the top end Arasaka or Miltech killer cyborgs. you're just never going to see or have any interaction with them. so of course the killer cyborgs people talk about would be Maxtac.
2:05 I’m still amazed people were worried about y2k, when computer engineers were casually joking about it because they knew there was little to no problem
Hope you all enjoyed this video, all recorded in the new Overdrive update so hopefully it looks good! Let me know what you think and your thoughts on MaxTac!
I think MAXTAC is the second most interesting group in cyberpunk right behind trauma team, there so many potential story lines that can be told from these two groups alone, hopefully they will play a major role in future games .
Looks really good! How do you even take some of those shots? I tried taking some cool shots of NC using photo mode, but they look nothing like this.
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A maxtac beginning would go crazy
Glad they finally added them to the Game
If taken into account how many people V has killed during the game in so many different ways, despite the fact that those were mostly gang members, one might say that V is a high functioning cyberpsycho, with a solo assault on Arasaka tower as the final accord. Johnny Silverhand was V's cyberpsychosis.
If you wanna be technical Adam smasher is a high functioning cyberpsycho too. Dude literally likes murder...its like
His thing...
The way I played V, he was definitely full blown psycho
Eh i wiped out Watson before i even got dexter's gig,i killed gang members,some ripperdoc and alot of civilians for thier cars
In my game I basically play on the level of MAX-TAC while rocking their gear.
Hey, if they ask me to join them and the prompts don't let me other than for a vague "maybe", I'll take anything I can get.
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Cyberpunk lore is actually insane. I love it.
If you want more the cyberpunk comic books are awesome. I highly recommend them
@@benphishHello, can you give some titles that I can read?
@@jkaeqpo400 There are three collections out from dark horse publishing. You have my word, trauma team and blackout. The individual paperbacks are out of print as far as I can tell but there is a hardcover coming out that will have all of them that you can preorder now. The table top game has a bunch of lore books as well that are really interesting.
@@jkaeqpo400 Cyberpunk 2077 : Trauma Team, You Have My Word, Blackout, Where's Johnny, Your Voice, Big City Dreams. And a book named "No Coincidence"
I recently listened to the audiobook of No Coincidence. It's a solid 6.5-7 out of 10. pretty fun, but the flow of storytelling can be quite confusing due to the constant perspective shift.@@grindorere7725
I hope they will include more MaxTac in future stories. The group is very interesting and could easily fit in longer story arc.
Imagine a protagonist whose loved one dies in school shooting caused by a cyberpsycho, so they join MaxTac and starts to lose their humanity
@@kotorandcorvid4968 doesn’t sound like it’ll work
They’re meant to be highly elite, cyber psychosis recovered soldiers
It’s more like, the character ends up there at some point rather than starting in it
Then it turns out they’re all mind controlled or some bs like that
@@OfAngelsAndAnarchist MaxTac members are noted to be very dedicated to wipe out all cyberpsychos. Many of them likely have personal reasons, so a person dedicating their life to a singular goal caused by hatred (and losing their humanity in the process) would work.
It's not mentioned that all members are ex cyberpsychos. But if they were, that would also have a lot of potential. A former psycho finding a new purpose in a new life, with their psyche irreversibly scarred.
@@kotorandcorvid4968 pretty sure it’s explicitly stated
Otherwise they would not be able to keep up with a cyberpsycho
Dw man, just leave the writing to people who think shit through better
@@OfAngelsAndAnarchist it's not. Also "keep up with cyberpsychos" you don't need to be one yourself to defeat one. Also, quit the condescending tone.
My understanding was that Melissa, the maxtac officer who talks with V, was the woman from that old trailer. I thought that was a cool little detail
She is. I think one of here comments, when speaking with V, more or less confirms it.
@@helli0n73 the cashier also says that she was a cyberpsycho from a few months prior
@@leonrussell9607 Oh yeah! Thats true
You can also find a document talking about her in your first mission with River
Much agreed
MaxTac was freaking OP in edgerunners
Main mowed down a whole platoon.
@@1HeatWalk We clearly didn't see the same anime
@@1HeatWalk He exploded a whole platoon... with himself, there is a difference.
@@1HeatWalk that wasn't maxtac, that was cops and trauma team... maxtac didn't show up until the end when he blew himself up
@@seranonable it was maxtac 😂that or David was hallucinating maxtacs presence.
I've always had this suspicion that Regina's cyberpsycho missions are just a way for MaxTac to recruit people. Which is why they're preferred to be captured alive.
That actually sounds cool
She did say they were explicitly to try and find a cure for cyberpsychosis
MaxTac might have some correlations since keeping your troops sane but still borged up would be immensely beneficial to them.
But other than maybe funding or behind the shadows, I doubt they're straight up turning the living cyberpsychos into MaxTac
Waaaaat I never thought of that and I’ve been playing for 3 years! That never occurred to me, and just revolutionized how I think of this universe
Holy shit that makes so much sense
I'm supposed to be taking them alive? 😮
I've been merc'n every one 😅
I always thought MaxTac were a deadly unit but never expected them to have Cyberpsychos in their ranks. These troops are without down the best of the best at their job but also ticking time bombs ready to blow at any moment. Just damn the Cyberpunk universe is brutal but I love the universe. With that said amazing video on the deadliest unit in Cyberpunk. Keep up the great work!
If you want more, track down a PDF of Cyberpunk 2020's "Protect and Serve" book, they talk about Max Tac a good deal there. I believe the core book does as well
You must have missed the trailer then lmao
I bet the goverment took already that to account and had a plan ready if they turn psychos too... After all, they have the same risk as all Night City
I’d say that MaxTac are in many respects high-functioning psychos (like Adam Smasher) who “get their high” from fighting and killing other cyberpsychos.
Some claim that they’re “cured”, but I honestly don’t fully believe that.
I got caught by maxtac once, trying to get the sandy mk3 from a cyberpsycho encounter.
Shot a civ by accident, a couple cops who made the encounter much more difficult at my very high level *of 7* and very quickly I decided, *I'm never killing a cop again*
They had me pinned in a corner huffing bounce back like I was asthmatic panic shooting the walls every time a pixel changed colour
Nothing like buying a baseball bat and seeing how far u can go lol
@@aleccarroll7328 I expected them to be deadly but they die like flies.
@@sitrueis4007early game they are due to their matrix like move but it quickly change once you hit 30, you should be on par with them.. heck i demolish them with legendary gorilla arms
I remember getting caught by MaxTac once and being the buffoon that I am, I decided it's a good idea to fight them.
The good idea turned out to be a awful one.
They become OP once you hit past level 51, each one feel like you’re fighting somebody with your build.. the net runners are insanely OP, everytime they shut my cyberware down, but my second heart, and pump, plus cyberpsycho(Fury) puts me over the edge vs them for a few waves.. I don’t have a Sandy, Berserker, or Quick Hack deck.. just Chrome.. I took off the training wheels, I’m pure chrome, no slowing time down with a press of a button, No Berserker rage , or making them commit Minecraft.. just pure chrome with Gorilla Arms, my World Breaker Hulk Build.
It'd be cool as hell if you could play as part of the maxtac division and be sent on missions to take out the cyberspsychos at any cost 💀
That was apparently going to be the original concept for CP2077
Did you play any of the optional missions from Regina (lady with the eye patch)? You got MANY chances to fight Cyberpsychos. In fact you could say it was even more intense since you are NOT Maxtac, but just going in with what an Ex-corpo(street kid/nomad) could get his/her hands on.
Repeatable side mission DLC would be sick
@@HalfBreedMixOh yeah the mission with a boring story and boring conclusion for a grand total of 7 minutes? Very exciting. As well you can’t unalive them without suffering from negatives due to Regina. The encounters suck in base 2077 at least compared to what we could get as being MAXTAC, plus it’d be way more awesome
Why 💀?
A city abandon by God’s would have a special police force made up of cyberpsychos that would be very happy to rip and tear anything that’s near the vicinity of a fellow cyberpsycho. Night city citizens truly are in safe hands.😺
I ran a Cyberpunk: Red game where I had the unlucky Chooms in the gang wake up under the care of MaxTac. Turns out, each of them went Cyberpsycho badly enough that MaxTac was called, and as a way to treat their psychosis their memories of how they got there were suppressed. Now, in order to pay for their rehabilitation (and also, as a screening process for becoming possible MaxTac Agents) they had to go track down a Ripperdoc who was suspected of giving purposely faulty cyberware to create Cyberpsychos - with each person in the new MaxTac unit (Unit title: Rip-Off) being someone who was fed faulty chrome from this Ripper.
I love that you brought up how MaxTac has some of the only true "rehabilitating" tech out there. Makes them an interesting entity as they take down the very people they "could" help. A caring, yet incredibly bottom-line ruthless organization.
With the ammount of modifications that MaxTac agents have and they must know that most of them are dancing on the verge of cyberpsicosis, I believe they must have some sort of failsafe in their gear, like a killswitch or something in the helmet that could help their peers deal with a rogue agent.
You can actually find a shard in game that's an excerpt from a book written by a max tac officer talking about this very concept. He basically says that becoming a cyber psycho scares them more than anything.
I'm guessing they get first class psychological treatment and maybe meds to keep them from going over the edge themselves.
@@Unknown-ek1oxMaybe, I think Corpo V is shown to have a therapist so clearly mental health is taken seriously if there's enough money or the patient is valuable enough. I imagine maxtac officers, especially "ex" cyberpsychos would be under constant surveillance and have access to the best medical or mental health services
They probably have explosives embedded within their necks to ensure that if they go off they definitely go off
I felt like it was a big let down when we didn't get any MAXTAC missions or even the option to join MAXTAC I don't know what the hell cdpr was thinking such a missed opportunity with both MAXTAC and trauma team .
Imagine the opportunity with the fact if you kill a corporat and the trauma team comes he was a trauma team customer and having to defend yourself from the coming trauma team
It would make a great dlc
CP2077 is just nothing but missed opportunity. But then again it Had it's own story it was following and IMO should have tighter up and focused more on that. The world is way to big in the lore sense that each Faction or setting can be it's own game.
Streetkidd, Nomads, and Corps are Big enough that they could each get their own Skyrim level game.
CYBERPUNK STREETKIDS, could be a game focused on well. A streetkid. Growing in the city around the gangs and police. Be one of the gang or Help put a stop to the rampages.
NOMADS, focus on the clans. Inside and out the city in the badlands. Learn what it means to be family.
CORPORATION, focus on the corporations and their environment. Join Militech or Arasaka(or hell a new startup) and you crawl and claw your way up the corporate ladder. Do you help the small company become a big dog or will it be crushed under your boot as you stand on the shoulders of Giants?
I had this thought so many times playing. How could they not have you interact even just a little bit with MAXTAC or Trama Team. Trauma Team also suffers the same thing. Maybe in future DLC =\
It comes down to development problems at the end of the day. You can find good documentaries on TH-cam talking about the lack of people calling the shots on what aspects of the game needed to be hammered out and which to get cut, on top of trying to develop for as many platforms as possible and developing a new game engine for the game...while the game itself is being made on a work in progress game engine. They were riding the high of witcher 3 and paid the price
Max-Tac: We’ll always be here to protect you. That is, unless you get in the way of our protection. In which case, there will be no one left to protect you from us…
It's funny how V always throws a spanner in the Cyberpunk universe's power scaling. MaxTac have to be absolitely chromed out to fight cyberpsychos but V can fight them alone while wearing fairly minimal chrome. Borgs are supposedly insanely strong, moreso that basically any non-borg barring very few exceptions, but V can take them down fairly easily. Using a Sandevistan too frequently can have devastating consequences on a person but V uses them with nearly no cooldown. MaxTac has an astonishingly high success rate in neutralizing cyberpsychos but V, if played like a psycho, could have an astonishingly high success rate in neutralizing MaxTac. They truly gave us an insane power level in this game.
Yeah i wish the game showed you get more borged out. Look at David he’s a literal mech with better gear than v yet gets stomped by Adam smasher. V destroys Adam smasher low diff in the actual game it makes no sense
@@GmanMusic12they are allegedly reworking boss fights, Adam Smasher especialy
Well a few things Kind of absolutely confirm that v is special
1: he’s got a chip that can resurrect his dead body multiple times and it’s implied that he got at least a little chromed up. Even if he isn’t full borg he’d have all of his body reinforced with top of the line stuff.
2: Even before the relic it’s fair to say that v was a competent merc considering they earned a name for themselves in a relatively short amount of time.
So like v is special but no more so then any of the other legendary figures in cyberpunk.
its common with videogames man, whatever
@@kaison12205V is special, and you’re right that he’s technically not more special than any legend, but she’s better than any legend prowess wise tbf.
MaxTac would make for a FANTASTIC DLC. Everything about this group fit perfectly with the dystopian nature of this franchise and there is so much potential from both narrative and gameplay perspective.
Instead we get a James bond dlc😅
Don't miss their next comic on February: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad.
@@victorcharles27 Bond, Mission Impossible and Alien Isolation DLC: 10/10.
It's cool that if you kill Melissa Rory, you can loot her mantis blades. That sounds like a terrible idea, but they look really cool. Just know that the fight is tough, as you're cornered in a store with basically no cover and swarmed with MaxTac units.
If they ever do New game+ they should use a maxtac character start as an explanation to why you have your batshit level gear😂
If they were still planning on updates or ever get the manpower to put out updates, itd be cool to get an expansion on different lifepaths, possibly only on ng+
You know when the first trailer for cyberpunk came out I thought that we would be playing as a member of maxtac.
Like we’d play a badass cybernetic supercop, That hunted down rogue cyborgs bladerunner style.
Maybe we could try to reconcile with our humanity despite us being what we are. Maybe we could choose to be absolute psychopaths. Or maybe we could end up to be on the wrong side of the law and be chased by our former maxtac people because we were set up by corrupt people in night city.
Then they revealed V as the PC
The original story I believe was about MaxTac but instead they changed it to the idea of cyberpsycosis and the relic. I do enjoy Vs story but damn I wished for more MaxTac and medical team
You just thought of a better game than the actual game itself.
I am still massively disappointed I paid 70$ for pre-ordering the game.
@@John.McMillan I'm sorry you didnt enjoy it. At this point in its life cycle it is on of the best games I have ever played.
@@WiseFish Imagine if they'd combo'd both of those things, V starts getting cyberpsycosis from years of stress and guilt as a max tac unit, you get to witness the slow at first then rapid break down in V as well as the city continuing to deteriorate around you.
@@John.McMillan it’s my favorite game of all time.
Amazing video as usual. Overdrive looks absolutely stunning!
Would be great to see MaxTac hunting down Adam Smasher.
Probably has corporate immunity
Smasher's cybernetics are too OP for MaxTac, they'd be obliterated
Well, Adam has the best backing of all, the corporates. So that's a no
They'd lose lol
In the game, it takes only 4 MaxTac agents to defeat Smasher.
I like how you talk about these things as if you're some kind of reporter, especially around 9:58
Very cool
MaxTac sounds insane. Like who is running the whole thing ? Why do they have the capability to rehabilitate (repurpose) cyberpsychos ? Mysterious, might be the most powerful faction in the game.
They belong under ncpd
MaxTac is run by the NCPD. Worth noting is that MaxTac and it's leadership isn't inherently corrupt to the core, unlike more or less every other public organisation because everyone understands the severity and pure randomness of the Cyberpsychosis threat.
They have the capability because someone has to neutralise the cyberpsycho threat and they have proven themselves (100% success rate) to be effective.
Arasaka is the most powerful faction in the game because they have a massive supercarrier, the Kujira moored in the city harbour. Militech is a close second. Both of them have and operate actual militaries with top-of-the-line equipment they themselves manufacture, unlike the NCPD who purchases their equipment from suppliers, such as Arasaka and Militech.
@@Airay552 thanks for the run down.
I really wish that Melissa Rory would have had her own quest line where we get to explore her background more. Maxtac is the most underrated group in the lore IMO.
I'd love to see a DLC where you get to play as her and undergo MaxTac missions.
Whenever I think of the BD V finds, I always think of a quote from David's Ripper.. "A cautionary tale.. for the next dreamer.." it seems V was that dreamer..
I would love to play a MaxTac DLC. The very first trailer of this game presented a max tac on full force and that was amazing
We may just have gotten that if they didn't do the whole game (plot) from scratch for the Johnny stuff instead.
Well, maybe the DLC will miraculously add a way to do radiant quests for MAX-TAC.
WiseFish, you genuinely have the best Cyberpunk videos; the best researched and written. Simply nova, Keep up the good work, choom.
Honestly can’t wait for the dlc and all the nooks and crannies that will be discovered because that means more cyberpunk lore!
I do wonder how MaxTac would fair against Smasher, or how many MaxTac operators it would take to bring him down
*in universe lore
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In the tabletop game they had anti tank weapons readily available in their vehicles and mecha/powersuit backup available within a few minutes.
Tbh a single squad will do the job. Adam is just heavily armed and experienced veteran. Don't think he is really that broken when compared to end game / maxtac level. The cyberpsycho in edgerunner (owner of David's sandi) is also a war vet, can't handle a squad of maxtac as well
@@Banana-cc5rxto be fair smasher has maintained a full grasp on reality and has about 50 years experience so he isn’t an ordinary veteran
@@kaison12205Smasher could probably take a few MaxTac out himself. Great self-ICE. Would probably take two or three squads to bring him down - unless they’re readily there with AT-4s or something that would wipe him with one HEAT round.
Learning about this stuff REALLY increases the enjoyment I get out of a game.
The experience is analogous to hearing a funny joke vs. hearing an inside joke.
The more you know, the better a joke becomes.
My father was a career member of MaxTech. He always had a lot of really fascinating stories to tell, even though there was so much more he either wasn't allowed to talk about, or were so disturbing that he'd be visably shaken and refuse to get into. Got a lot of respect for that man.
I liked their black gear and the way they gone away with flipping nods and just made them part of their helmet it looks so cool
I forgot their name at first but watching them one shot some punks in the early game scene nailed how crazy powerful they were when it took a magazine of a shitty unity to kill a scav at first
I cant get enough of your videos surrounding cyperpunk! never stop and i happily subscribed :)
Man i love your videos. Great work, great editing, deep lore diving, everything. You keep my love for cp77 alive and well
I'd actually like either a DLC or a sequel/ spin-off game where we can join Max-tac where our decisions lead to us either going cyber-psycho or not. I've always thought Max-tac was an interesting force despite not actually encountering them much in the game, but I'd still love to know more about them.
Thanks to the new 2.0 update in Cyberpunk 2077 with the update for the police system, I've had the pleasure of meeting MaxTac several times now and what can I say........
They beat me up good
MaxTac Rogues sounds like a pretty cool setting idea
Max-Tac Policy of shot and Shot again IS probably one reason why the psychoattacks keep coming. The ones WHO are still Same enough to realize the onset of psychosis are very disinclinded to seek Help because that will likely be in the Form of a bullet.
disinclinded ?
15:21 I like how he was so gone he didn’t just move his barrels down two inches and shoot the guy in the mouth
Appreciate the efforts you put into your videos 👍🏼
A Whole precinct or a legion of rogue max-tac cyber psychos, as if cyber psychos weren't terrifying enough. With the right hackers/netrunners, etc in the cyberpunk 2077 universe, that could very well be a scenario. Good video!
These videos are incredible, WiseFish. Thorough and high-quality. You are much appreciated, choombatta.
Had my first encounter with MaxTac in the game yesterday and they were bloody terrifying. I killed Melissa Rory for her mantis blades after the Bullets quest and they chased me down for 20-30 minutes as I scrambled to lose the heat. They kept destroying every single car I got in leading to me having to scramble to find new vehicles every few minutes. It took me going deep off road in the badlands for them to finally lose my trail. I've seen Edgerunners and knew they were the best of the best but I did not expect it to carry into the game so well. Definitely one of the best experiences I've had in a game in the last few years.
Great vid. Gotta say I love the guy who told his wife, 'hey if I go crazy, dump a clip in me.' I hope he doesn't have any night terrors or bad dreams cause MaxTac will need to look for a replacement.
Great video as always. Love your lore vids.
Great vid dude! Your ability to weave lore and your own storytelling is wonderful! Thanks for the content man👍
It's funny how they are so fearless and straight OP that not even the Corpos try to take over them, unlike NCPD, leaving them alone, fighting other cyberpsychos
I would love more Melissa and V content in the announced Sequel, maybe even with Melissa explaining to V how she was reabilitated from her Cyberpsycosis...
Incredible work with this one! Really enjoyed learning more about these bloodthirsty psychopaths. Well played!
MaxTac is like Bladerunner and Robocop combine, cool 😎
Read a couple of Shadowrun novels in my 20's. Am pleasantly surprised by how much I'm enjoying the Cyberpunk Netflix series. I love living in the future that is 2022!
In 2.0 maxtac are fucking monsters
Especially when they arrive in their av you just get that loud siren basically saying
"Congratulations! We are here to fuck your life up"
Realy enjoy these lore videos, good job dude and thank for making them!
Could you imagine being the sole member of a MaxTac squad who wasn't a rehabilitated cyberpsycho?
This is so well made lol keep making these lore videos
If there's something psycho
In your neighborhood
Who you gonna call?
Max-Tac!
If there's something weird
And it don't look nova
Who you gonna call?
Max-Tac!
9:28 This should be lead to the MAXTAC ENDING for V. (five missions against advanced adversaries and the final action with killed nomads (portrayed as "resistance like" insectoids) in V's Mind...
MaxTac: "Joins us"
Me: "How do I say yes?!?!?!?!"
You overlooked one aspect of Cyberpsychosis that is very important. But thats ok since it was basically sidelined in the game and anime: Psychological trauma.
The high ammount of cases of cyberpsychosis are directly linked to the psychological trauma people experience in Night City's daily struggle.
A life of crime ridden streets, backstabbing politics, merciless business and human drama and violence around every corner.
In the Pen&Paper Original, you had a "humanity"-Counter wich, if it dropped to 0, would make you a cyberpsycho. And that humanity counter was under constant strain from the implants you bought, the potential crimes you comitted, the violence you saw and the trauma you received and caused.
So in the original, it was not just the Chrome, it also was the dystopian hell of Night City, wich caused Cyberpsychosis. Thats why its so hard to rehabilitate cyberpsychos. What made them snap is often not just the chrome. It is Nightcity itself.
love your videos and you really made me excited about cyberpunk again. Im giving it another shot!
I always wonder how the hell do they get new members if they go full lethal on any and all forces their called on for?
Do they kill them, ask for Arasaka to use the relic on them and use it to make a new soldier who doesn’t care about how many implants they get?
I love all your cyberpunk content ❤
Just found your channel and this is the content I have been wanting. From Pondsmith's original work to CDPR interpretation, there is so much more and so many stories to tell. Definitely got a subscriber now
Love all the Cyberpunk Lore
4:39 "psycho psychoisis", the psycho to end all psychopath....
Many thanks for this excellent video!
I would love a Cyberpunk game, in which we would be an NCPD character, with the possibility of being corrupt or not and with the chance of being a member of MaxTac.
Your videos are fire after this and the trama team one I’m all in my guy great job like seriously shits really good 👍
Really great video! Max-tac strike that awsome balance of terrifying and badass!
I have a feeling MaxTac didnt kill Melissa since she became docile after the killings, aka she was no longer hostile. Had Melissa turned the Mantis blades on MaxTac, she would have had her brain turned into a fine mist
This. It's about how much in control the psycho is able to regain. It's basically mental issues, with proper treatment one can recover, though borderline. Melissa is still a sadistic person from her lines even though she is in control
awesome. loved them in Edgerunner too.
They're called the Psycho Squad for good reason ... and it's not because of who they fight.
Liked and subbed. What a great video!
Does nobody else realize that the cyber psychotic From the edge runner show. Is named james norris. Is that last name. Norris.
How he was able to tear through tons of people like it was nothing.Doesn't that remind you of another man with the last name of norris first name chuck
Max Tac is one of those situations where you don't know which move would be worse. Disbanding them or keeping them operational.
I could see V being the literal embodiment of the Devil for MaxTech.
Fun fact if you kill Melissa and somehow get away from maxtac afterward she will drop her 2013 mantis blades and you can equip them I don’t think they make you go crazy in game tho. I got it because I had the best sandevistian and double jump combined with dash.
you should do a video about the importance of someone like blackhand or what the rest of the world is doing during this time.
MaxTac is powerful asf, I run as soon as I hear the alarm on their aircraft go off 💀
when I saw the first trailer I thought we were going to play as one of the members of MaxTac, I was quite disappointed that we weren't
my god they made a Cloaker Clone Army
Awesome lore breakdown! Really enjoyed this content
I can’t exactly explain why I love this game+anime so much-it makes me feel like a masochist lol. Never have I had a game make such a fool of me, my decisions or even my moral compass. It constantly proves to me over and over that there are no such things as happy endings, only a sense of freedom. I fell down this rabbit hole on my first play through, meeting Melissa and wondering wtf? Up to this point, I had been saving/loading my games MULTIPLE times to leave all the cyberpsycho’s alive…because I can’t help but see Maine and David. But learning that THIS was their real ‘help and recovery’ killed me inside. I thought I was helping them, desperately wanted to BELIEVE there could be-but once again I felt shit on. Like….you’re no hero V….you just keep proving you’re the biggest fucking gonk in Night City.
😭😭😭😭☠️
I feel like edgerunners really helped showing how terrifying maxtac is
My V carries non-lethal weaponry and I don't kill... Anymore.
A friend of mine came up with a theory about James that I honestly adore and fits with what we see in Cyberpunk 2077.
When you go around hunting Cyber-psychos, you need to find out just WHAT made them snap and send the detes to Regina.
Now, mind you, though I think the implants DO help a BIT to cause Cyber-psychosis, it seems like what REALLY causes it is the STRESS these people go through. Like... going postal basically. Life constantly crushing on top of them will eventually have their toll.
Now, as for the theory he came up with James:
It wasn't simply a "burst of violence". James was way too well prepared. He bought a whole ARSENAL with him. When we first see him, he's looking down, as if he's internally preparing himself for something big. Yes, we do believe he's suffering from Cyber-Psychosis, but not the "kill everything in sight" type.
What my friend theorized is that James pretty much committed "suicide by cop".
James went all the way to the Corpo Plaza, armed to teeth, apparently not having killed anybody on his way there. And only truly started killing once he found some police.
Now, with all the crime and killings in Night City, there's not always a GARUANTEE the police will show up to stop them. You can see that as you play the Cyberpsycho missions in Cyberpunk 2077, neither the police NOR Max-Tac show up before V, which suggests that the Police would rather not get involved and Max-Tac takes a while to get notified. Now, the Police does show up every once in a while in the form of corpses in a FEW Cyberpsycho sightings, but not all, so James decides to make the process quicker and just go right for somewhere with high police activity to start his massacre, aimed SOLELY at cops by the way, which would prompt the Police to call Max-Tac WAY faster than they normally would.
Now, you must be wondering "Okay, if James wanted to die so bad, why didn't he just off himself?"
We see the very reason the moment the police starts firing at James. He was essentially bullet-proof. Nothing they did could even BEGIN to damage him at all, no matter how many rounds they spent on him. We had a fuckton of cops just magdumping him and he quite literally did not even flinch. Not to mention that considering his use of the sandervistan, and his fighting style, along with body language, he's still calm and somewhat AWARE of what he's doing. It doesn't look like a "manic episode", he seems like he's in full control of his body during this mess.
Thing is: Because his body is essentially a TANK now, normal weapons just won't do. He can't just pop a bullet in his own head because it'll just bounce off. He KNOWS Max-Tac is the only thing that can put him out of his misery and he KNOWS he has to do something BIG for Max-Tac to take notice and come end him. Which is why we think when got taken down by Max-Tac, instead of trying to escape in any way, like he was so expertedly using his Sandervistan before Max-Tac's arrival, he just started shooting at will, even though his bullets were clearly doing jack to Max-Tac's advanced armor.
It really puts into perspective how interesting Cyber-Psychos are. All the years in the military probably made the guy snap and decide to suicide by Max-Tac.
That, or he went on power trip, believing himself to be unkillable, maybe even unable to comprehend the idea of him dying.
To me it felt like he was trying to provoke Max-Tac, targeting police officers to make sure Max-Tac would arrive sooner.
This was definitely a premeditated thing, and it's hard to tell if it was a suicide, or if it was just search of a thrill of the challenge.
I love the cyberpunk lore videos you make, and I greatly appreciate that you put some on Spotify. Could you add more onto Spotify? I tend to listen while I'm driving or doing other activities.
What if MaxTac gets called to kill someone but that someone has platinum Trauma Team coverage?
Oh boy this is gonna be good
Awesome video 🎉🎉🎉
i had this idee of a DLC that could be awesome for Cyberpunk. imagine a sort of Game Arcade, but with modified Braindances instead of arcade machines or VR games. but it is also a hidden testing ground for a Braindance Controller System. imagine, you go in as V, you go into a Experimental Modified Interactive Braindance, and you get to controll the person in the Braindance, and do whatever you want. you always wake up in a room, and have to go outside and do whatever you wish from thereon. but after V starts killing people for fun in the interactive Braindance, some days go by and he/she suddenly notices the news talking in grim detail about what he/she had just witnessed in the interactive braindance. now V is curious, and goes out of his/her way to find out what really happened, but because of what he/she did, MaxTac is now after him/her, so he/she has to dodge them as well as contracted mercs to find out what actually happened and to clear his/her name.
the idea of MaxTac going after him, or her depending on gender of chosen player respectively, is that in the Braindance, he/she shouted out as he/she killed people who he/she was, and that prompted them to go after him/her.
Wake up babe, there is yet another Wisefish lore video😀
Seems a common thing tbh lol
Remember that datashards are written by people (I'm referring to in-game characters not people irl), and therefore aren't always exactly true, either because the author doesn't have all the information, the author has incorrect information, or (and this will always happen to some extent) the author's biases make their way into the writing.
My point is I don't think that every maxtac operative is a cyberpsycho, and that the author was probably over exaggerating, even if only a little
MaxTax in concept reminds me of Task Force Void Nova Hammer from the creepypasta “I’m a Guard Stationed at a Secret Government Prison”.
Good stuff. Commenting for the algorithm
Maxtac in lore is some ultra gigachad who stomps on cyberpsychos like ants, in gameplay they are ...
I know right? In my recordings I killed 5 of them with relative ease, pretty bad considering they’re meant to be able to deal with Cyberpsychos easily
@@WiseFish I mean that intro when you're driving with Jackie they are some badasses, taking care of those psychos like they where nothing with some extreme proficiency but, I wish that translated into gameplay maybe I would commit less crimes in gameplay.
Main reason IS that the Police comes in dropplets instead of waves. You dont even realise that you fighting max tac Most of the time. They should come in in the avs with Styll
MaxTacs only problem is if their target gets in a car and dives away.
Considering that David’s XBD and logo are found in one alleyway, wouldn’t it have been cool and made more sense if that’s where you got the militech apogee sandy in 2.0 instead of a random side gig?
Night City's Apex predators. The phantoms that keep you up at night.
Everyone bangs on about max tac but if you play the game there are militech soldiers with the same sort of gear but upgraded to widthstand harsher conditions and they likely have better training and support to as they are an actual army. Same glowing wire things on their arms (likely linear frames) and same sort of eye covering headsets only in a helmet form with a sort of blast shield cover.
that's because militech is one of the biggest corps in the world and specializes in, well, military grade tech.
nobody bangs on about them because it's simply expected they would have walking tank cyborgs loaded down with super weaponry. it's as obvious as saying the US military has nukes.
people talk about Maxtac because these are, ostensibly, "police". they are expected to deal with the public and are called out into public places all the time.
meanwhile, those militec cyborgs are basically only ever going to be involved in Militech matters. the average person would never see one of them unless they went to a Militech base or somehow got involved in a militech operation(extremely unlikely).
@Criminalupper2200 if that were true people in the real world would talk more about swat teams than special forces like the SAS or navy seals. But they don't.
@@Bikeadelic people in Cyberpunk talk about Maxtac because they have way more exposure. people irl are not seeing SWAT gunfights all the time that kills dozens of people.
as was said in the video, Maxtac has an around 90% kill rate. they show up and they just start shooting. irl most of the stuff a swat team might do is maybe kick down a door to search a house in most cases.
@Criminalupper2200 the idea people would just forget about special forces is stupid. Again using your theory people irl would think gangs are top dog or something.
Max tach would be weenies compared to militech or arasaka sf
@@Bikeadelic and as I said in a different comment, nobody actually cares about that because you're never going to SEE a militech or Arasaka elite cyborg, unless you for some reason are at one of their high security bases ofr are one of the very, very few people to be somehow involved in very high end corp operations(they don't bring these guys out for any random wetwork)
as a night city citizen, your odds of getting blasted in the crossfire of a Maxtac raid are INFINITELY greater than you ever running afoul or the top end Arasaka or Miltech killer cyborgs. you're just never going to see or have any interaction with them.
so of course the killer cyborgs people talk about would be Maxtac.
2:05 I’m still amazed people were worried about y2k, when computer engineers were casually joking about it because they knew there was little to no problem