Mass Effect 3

[MNM]

PsychoPere wrote:

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Galactic Readiness can only be raised through multiplayer and the Mass Effect: Infiltrator game for iOS devices.

Which pisses me off. I can fly round the galaxy making impassioned speaches to every race, telling them they have to mobilise to defeat the reapers or die, I can make hard sacrifices to choose which assets I take and which get abandoned, I can threaten, cajole and inspire people to work towards the end result. But, if I dont want to play multiplayer or some do social media style stuff, I cant get beyond half readiness for the biggest threat the galaxy has seen.

[PsychoPere]

You won't get much disagreement from me there, though even with a low level of annoyance I still think BioWare found a pretty cool way (within the story) to implement multiplayer. I'd even be down for buying that new iOS game if its reviews weren't horrible (I did buy Galaxy back in '09 and mostly enjoyed it, though I never did finish it).

[superdeluxe]

Please see post below of possible way bioware should have ended: obvious spoilers:

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/to...ndex/9833130/1

[Skywalker]

I'm not quite at the end yet, so if someone could just give me a quick answer without spoilers...

Would I be able to get whatever the "best" ending is if I have two sections at 100% and the others are close to that, or does every area have to be at 100% readiness? I've got the Alliance and Terminus Systems at 100%, and the others are around 97-98%.

[PsychoPere]

My current understanding is that you need a minimum of 4000 Effective Military Strength for what is commonly considered the "best" ending. If your Galactic Readiness and Total War Assets combined can match that, then you should be good.

[throwback]

The figures are as follows:
* 4,000 (base destroyed or saved)
** Destroy the Reapers
** Anderson "lives"
** Shepard lives

* 5,000 (base destroyed or saved)
** Destroy the Reapers
** Anderson dies
** Shepard lives

The footage of Shepard is being used by some people who believe that what happened on the station is a hallucination as a kind of proof.

For myself, I am beginning to agree with them. There are things that don't make sense if they are considered more carefully. For instance, the next time you play the game, after you wake up, after being knocked unconscious by Harbinger's beam, before you walk to the conduit, look behind you. You may see something surprising, and out-of-place.

If this is a hallucination, then we don't know how Shepard defeated the Reapers. We just know that he did.

[PsychoPere]

throwback, you need to spoiler code that information.

[Reverend]

Just finished the game and decided to start a new thread so we don't clog this one with spoiler tags. See you there!

[Skywalker]

PsychoPere wrote:

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My current understanding is that you need a minimum of 4000 Effective Military Strength for what is commonly considered the "best" ending. If your Galactic Readiness and Total War Assets combined can match that, then you should be good.

Oh, in that case, I should be fine. I've got way more than that.

Thanks!

[Steven]

So... be honest guys. Who listened to all the "Blasto 6: Partners in Crime" clips on the Citadel?

[stonester1]

Just began playing last night. LOVE what they did with EDI. Kinda like Jocasta, in the Avengers.

[-Brett-]

throwback wrote:

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For myself, I am beginning to agree with them. There are things that don't make sense if they are considered more carefully. For instance, the next time you play the game, after you wake up, after being knocked unconscious by Harbinger's beam, before you walk to the conduit, look behind you. You may see something surprising, and out-of-place.

I can't be arsed to go through that mission again. Anyone want to describe or post a video showing this surprising and out-of-place thing?

[ATimson]

-Brett- wrote:

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I can't be arsed to go through that mission again. Anyone want to describe or post a video showing this surprising and out-of-place thing?

You shouldn't have to go through the entire mission - your Shepard's Restart Mission checkpoint should be right at that part.

[-Brett-]

ATimson wrote:

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You shouldn't have to go through the entire mission - your Shepard's Restart Mission checkpoint should be right at that part.

Ah. So it is. Not seeing anything that jumps out at me without a liberal dose of imagination, though.

Using a liberal dose of imagination, all I see is a cloud that looks like the Bat-signal. Which is crazy because Batman isn't based out of London.

[PsychoPere]

-Brett- wrote:

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I can't be arsed to go through that mission again. Anyone want to describe or post a video showing this surprising and out-of-place thing?

I've read two thoughts on different websites regarding this.

1) Some people have experienced what is likely a bug, wherein your two squad members are standing behind you.

2) Some people claim that the three trees behind you are from the dream sequences and weren't there when you were rushing for the beam, but I've seen other people claim that the trees were there the entire time.)