Mass Effect 3

[Error]

You know, the "good ending" is just a brief shot of someone, presumably Shepard, moving beneath some rubble. But since its not recognizable, at least not to me, I'm going to assume it's the Illusive Man that survived.

[Mzo]

I looked it up because I'm not a pussy about spoilers. Looks like there are over 16 different permutations of the ending.

In terms of score tiers, the best is 5000+. Second best is 4000-4999. Just beat it already.

[JBNagis]

meh. ive come to the conclusion that no matter what i think of the finale, the journy has been amazing. all the stuff with Legion, with him being the Geth that pretty much fired the return shot in the morning war. awesome

[Joust Williams]

I have to get the best ending though, even if it sucks. I have sunk 120 hours in this save and it might affect some DLC.

So I guess I have to play mp.

[MechDeus]

I have done everything possible in sp so far, except a random quest I cannot go back to. I heard that 4000 is the requirement, but then someone mentioned 5000 in relation to a requirement. I have over 5000 as the base with 50%, so I am good if I boost the readiness to 100. Not sure how much I have left, but I have heard of numbers over 7000. Do the last few missions add a ton of points? I think I am omit acting and I am finding all the garbage trinkets, accepting Spectre options, etc

I believe 4800 is the exact number for everything, below that is like 2500 for the previous big effect. The last couple missions added something like 400, as by the time I finished every side quest I had around 6800-7000 and I finished at around 7200.

I think the numbers are cumulative, so if you were planning on playing it twice you would end up with enough military force to be good regardless of galactic readiness. Through multiplayer it takes a few hours to go from 50 to 100%, it was basically the exact number of rounds I needed to get the overload achievement.

[Chux]

MP is fun anyway, I don't understand the bitching.

[Error]

it is fun. but it shouldn't have been tied to the single player storyline ending.

[MechDeus]

For the people who want to play it then there's a bonus and people who don't can play single-player and get the same results. How is that bad?

I also looked it up, the base for having everything is 4000 EMS. 5000+ simply automates something that you can make happen anyway.

Heavy spoiler page about the breakdown: http://www.rarityguide.com/articles/...ERS/Page1.html

That also told me there's another thing I missed for getting war assets, so I wonder what a perfect score would be. I only missed two things that I know of so far, so maybe 7300?

[Joust Williams]

Yeah but 7300 x 50% is less than either...

[MechDeus]

Looked it up: the maximum possible is 7515, so you'd need a 54% for a single playthrough to have the "best" ending.