Is Regina working for MaxTac?

Players from Cyberpunk 2077 You’ll know Regina Jones as the Watson District’s top fixer. She is a former media person, still attentive, who hires V for several shows in her region. But she’s unique among the tinkerers because Regina has another quest line she’s involved in: the “Cyberpsychological Sightings”.

At the beginning of the game, she will ask V to help her find and neutralize cyberpsychopaths – those driven mad by their implants who engage in mass violence – but still keep them alive. Regina claims to be working with a group that can treat cyberpsychosis and wants to help these people recover instead of being suppressed by the NCPD. V can incapacitate 17 cyberpsychos across the city in exchange for payment from Regina, who will express her gratitude if V shows mercy to these people. But one fan theory posits that Regina is just as bad as the NCPD, if not worse, and it is handing over these cyberpsychopaths to a group that will use and abuse them: MaxTac.

Why it looks like Regina is working for MaxTac

A deal with the devil

It’s common knowledge that MaxTac, the powerful arm of the NCPD that handles high-risk situations, has cyberpsychopaths in its ranks. This is seen at least once in the game, in the mission called “Bullets”, when a cyberpsychopath named Melissa Rory appears with MaxTac equipmentstill clearly violent and unbalanced in its dialogue. This same character appeared in a trailer for the game in 2013, when she went on a cyberpsychosis-fueled murder spree.

Based on this and the exaggerated violence that MaxTac employs, many fans speculate their ranks are full of “rehabilitated” cyberpsychopathsauthorized to exercise their violent impulses on criminals. And most of the time, as is the case with the “Bullets” mission, MaxTac takes no prisoners, executing the psychopaths it is sent to detain. That’s where the theory surrounding Regina comes in.

Gamers as Redditor Insanus_Vitaebelow, they theorized that she was hired by MaxTac to have her contacts apprehend cyberpsychopaths in a non-lethal way. This way, NCPD can collect them and place them in the MaxTac system.

There is plenty of evidence to support this theory. While none of the “saved” V cyberpsychopaths appear again in the MaxTac uniform or anything like that, Regina is rather vague and secretive about where she’s actually sending them. Furthermore, no one else in the game seems to know or even mention a cure for cyberpsychosis. It’s also a little strange how quickly Regina finds out about these psychopaths and where they are causing trouble. apparently before the authorities in all situations.

Why Regina might not be working for MaxTac

A media with integrity

This is a fun theory that would paint an otherwise upstanding character in an unpleasant light. Regina is usually one of the more moral fixers, who cares about preserving life when possible and used to work in the media exposing shady corporate activities. Looks on brand for Cyberpunk having a character like this hiding some dark secret, but there are some points that seem to go against this theory.

On the one hand, there is a cyberpsychological search in which Regina decides not to refuse a person because MaxTac is too close. It seems suggested that in this case, MaxTac recruits this psychopath because he couldn’t get him out in time. Back with Melissa Rory, it was MaxTac who managed to capture her, not some mercenary.

So it looks like MaxTac does its own recruiting when it needs new people, and it may not need someone like Regina. And to be fair to how much Regina knows, she is a well-connected media person whose job it was once to know as much as possible. It makes sense that she has her ear to the ground about the things she cares about.

Regina probably isn’t working for MaxTac

More coincidence than conspiracy

In all probability, Regina is not working with MaxTac. It doesn’t feel in keeping with how the NCPD branch operates or the genuine moments of characterization players get with Regina. She seems like someone who genuinely wants to help people, especially seeing how she rewards V in some other missions for doing things non-violently. Furthermore, it is already known that Regina has some unfinished business with a Chinese company that she seems to be afraid of, which is most likely the dark part of her story that she is hiding.

Still, this theory is somewhat plausible. Thematically fits the game’s commentary on exploration and what is said about media. And Max Jones, Regina’s former partner, seems to suspect something dark about her. Regina is definitely hiding something, and given the feeling that parts of the cyberpsych search seem incomplete, it may have something to do with it. And even leaving Regina aside, the connection between MaxTac and cyberpsychopaths is disturbing in itself. While we won’t know for sure until CD Projekt Red steps in to confirm the dent, it’s another fun theory to Cyberpunk 2077.

Source: Insanus_Vitae/Reddit