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[Lord Phoebus]

You can play multiplayer solo. Just start a private game and don't invite anyone. That doesn't help everyone who doesn't like multiplayer, but it might help some of them. Still, it was a pretty rotten thing for Bio/EA to do, particularly with the degrading GR.

You can unlock the three options with 2800+ EMS. With 4000+ EMS you can survive (well this is the deep breath ending) if you saved Anderson. With 5000+ EMS you survive even if you didn't save Anderson.

[Akeashar]

If you have an iOS device you don't need to play multiplayer. You can have the free Datapad App giving you more readiness than you lose through attrition.

Theres a bit of clamouring for it to be released on Android, I'd be happy for there to just be a floating version you can use on desktops or consoles.

[Emerald Rift]

MsKlaussen wrote...

Stamina Rose wrote...

 I find it extremely annoying that I will have to play MP just to get the best ending. MP is fun for a hour or so but it's not very original or fresh. I also hate it because Bioware stated that MP would not affect SP <_<

Even if I decided to play it, nothing is going to happen except that I will end up annoying everyone playing with me because I am so absurdly bad at multiplayer games. I know better than to get on that thing with a bunch of idiot savants that do only one thing well and that's play Commander Shepard so they can reach the limit of their patience with me and then the whole thing becomes a nightmare for all involved.

I couldn't even get up the first set of stairs on the MP demo, despite playing on Veteran or Hardcore or whatever on every game so far and doing quite well. I felt like I was stuck in tar, and I was totally confused. Nobody else is going to have time for that.

Luckily I have friends that I could play with because I'm not too good with co-op shooters and they are fine with that. It would be fine if the assests didnt degrade so I could some multiplayer then be done with it when I get to 100% on all systems.

[Forsythia]

Playing private games or using the Datapad app are not solutions to this. It still requires you to do something other than just the singleplayer. That's the whole point.

[Vesji]

Max TMS is capped out at 7850 (Meaning you can't get more without editing it).
This means, that you can *not* get EMS worth of 4000 without playing multiplayer.
(Because your galactic readiness is locked at 50%)

Cheers for BioWare the "twisted truths". 

[Grandchamp1989]

Nope, cannot be done. Proven time and time again.

Unless you cheat/hack of course.. .

[Solmanian]

What about the datapad? It's free, and over 40% have iPhones (plus who know how many have iPads). And you can't complain about an app that demands like a minute a day, and u get tweets from your comps.

[Cuddieee]

Something to consider: Multiplayer requires you to connect to EA servers. EA servers will get shut down eventually. BF2 for the 360 no longer has a multiplayer component as of 2011, and it was released in 2006. That is a 5 year lifespan.

Mass Effect released in 2007 (5 years ago), I was playing it just yesterday.

Seeing as how your readiness rating goes down every day you don't play MP, will there eventually come a time where it's literally impossible to get the best "ending" in ME3 without modding? Say in 5 years, when you want to wax goddamn nostalgic and replay the trilogy (supposing you can stomach the endings, should they remain unchanged) and can no longer play multiplayer.

Hell I even recently replayed the original Max Payne from 2001 so I have a penchant for nostalgia. BioWare's assurances that MP wouldn't affect your ability to get the best "endings" in SP has unfortunately run hollow, and I am deeply disappointed, this among many grievances with what was supposed to be an epic conclusion. For shame.

[edwardhazelden]

Yes you can, I did it on my first play through when I was opposed to multiplayer.. But then I played it.

[Kub666]

Lord Phoebus wrote...

You can play multiplayer solo.

You can, but this is very inefficient. You will get swarmed and die after a few waves, so grinding for points that way will take forever. Jumping in to actual MP will net you good GR rating much faster.

Pretty ****ty move from Bioware, no doubt, and them still lying about it is also very disappointing.

[Kub666]

Solmanian wrote...

What about the datapad? It's free, and over 40% have iPhones (plus who know how many have iPads).

There are much more people with Android devices than iOS devices in the world. But let's not derail this thread.

[Sebbe1337o]

metawanderer wrote...

Playing a full paragon from ME 1-2 and completing every side quest and scanning every planet that had something to scan, the highest I could get my EMS was to 3800 without playing multiplayer

Yeah same here, I didn't get the Rachni fleet though. I killed the Rachni queen in my ME1 playthrough for that save.

[OdanUrr]

The Bastus wrote...

I hit 7000 and I only had 58% galactic readiness. You just have to search every Galactic Cluster until they're all 100% and you should be more than fine. It's not difficult, the reaper attacks are just a temporary setback. Just Reload and do it again.

Do you honestly think I didn't factor this also?<_<

[KBomb]

Forsythia wrote...

That's not the point. BioWare LIED because they said you could get every ending without even touching the multiplayer. Some people don't have their consoles connected to the internet, a lot of people aren't interested at all in multiplayer, and on Xbox 360, you need to get Xbox Live just to be able to play online. There are tons of reason people don't want to play multiplayer. And tell me, if the servers are taken down (which will happen eventually), NO one will be able to get the 'best' ending anymore.

And BEST part of the game? Holy crap, you can't say that with a straight face, can you? Seriously?

 
People seem to think because they love MP then everyone should love it.

That's not the point. BioWare LIED because they said you could get every ending without even touching the multiplayer.

Not only did they lie about that, they stated many times that MP would in no way affect your SP experience. I posted this before, but I think it needs posting again for those who can't seem to understand one of the big reasons people are upset with Bioware over this fiasco.

"It's a fun and novel way to increase that number and open things up by having a diverse range of experiences," Flynn explained. "At the same time, you don't need to. You can stick to the single-player campaign. I'm sure there are a lot of completists out there who want to do that. They'll have amazing experiences and they'll get to see all the cool stuff they want to see just by doing single-player stuff.

"It's very optional. There's nothing walled off to you because you didn't play multiplayer and you're going to be running around at midnight saying, I need three friends! Quickly! We've got to find a BestBuy that's open! No. You'll get your amazing ending and amazing experiences just by playing single-player if you want that way."

Source. 


In short: Not everyone wants to play MP, no matter how fun you think it is, how easy you think it is—not everyone is you. Some have played ME for five years and it didn't require MP and some want to keep the experience that way and especially considering Bioware said it was completely optional.


And just because I feel I should add this to every post: Total Military Strength is not the same as Effective Military Strength.



 

Modifié par KBomb, 25 mars 2012 - 04:05 .

[EHondaMashButton]

There's like a hundred people who are supposedly terrible at multiplayer in this thread alone. Make a friend on the forum. Pair up with someone equally as terrible.

Or i dunno.... Play it solo.

You hear that? They gave you multiplayer that you can play ALONE, and you're still b:&@!ing. Your little universe can continue to revolve around you, without being tainted by the presence of another human being.

Nobody finds it ironic that you're beating every race over the head with the idea that they can't do it alone, while you yourselves are completely inflexible and unwilling to work with anybody else?

Because of what, "immersion?" As if stopping in the middle of a reaper invasion to go pick up some elcor laundry 3 systems away is more "immersive" than fighting husks & banshees.

Its CO-OPERATIVE horde mode. And they gave you the option of playing it alone; not having to cooperate. No different than the N7 horde missions. No different than defending your position while you wait for the shuttle/backup support. Its literally the singleplayer levels. And you can play it single-player. There is no reasonable argument unless you've got a bandwidth cap of 0.

This is a 3rd person action/rpg shooter. RPG + Shooter. Whining about having to shoot things to get points for GR is like b"@&ing about having to interact & explore to get war assets for TMS.

And 16 pages of debate for what? For a half a second teaser.

Are you afraid it'll affect your future imports? Because the council decision and the collector base made such a HUGE difference right? Whether you saved Ashley or Kaidan made an enormous impact, I'm sure. And the endings were so VASTLY different that you absolutely are forced to see all of them. (sarcasm, in case its not painfully obvious)

Play it singleplayer. Make a friend in this thread. Edit your ini if you're on pc. Watch it on youtube, then go outside. Its not that serious. I'm beginning to think people will find anything to cry about at this point.

Modifié par EHondaMashButton, 25 mars 2012 - 05:31 .

[BeefoTheBold]

What does it matter? It isn't like your readiness changes anything. Save yourself a few hours of planet scanning and Reaper invasion because your military strength makes no difference at the end anyway.

[vometia]

Kub666 wrote...

Solmanian wrote...

What about the datapad? It's free, and over 40% have iPhones (plus who know how many have iPads).

There are much more people with Android devices than iOS devices in the world. But let's not derail this thread.

I don't have either, so the numbers don't make a lot of difference to me one way or the other.

I do have a savegame editor, however...

[gert56nom]

I've played the PS3 game twice & got over 5000 both times

[FedericoV]

I reached 3'500 EGS and I've make two bad calls in the previous games (destroyed the reaper base and rewrite geth eretics): but I've done everthing else that could have been done. So, I guess that I could not reach 4000 even if I wanted to.

So, since I hate MP and will never be forced to play it (especially on that pile of crap called Origins), since I spend over 200 hours and 200 € on these franchise and since I was promised to have the best possible ending without playing MP, I simply cheated and edited the save. I feel I deserved it.

I'm really glad I did: the endings suck whatever your EGS is, so it would have been really a waste even to play 1 hr of MP for them...

[KBomb]

EHondaMashButton wrote...

There's like a hundred people who are supposedly terrible at multiplayer in this thread alone. Make a friend on the forum. Pair up with someone equally as terrible.

Or i dunno.... Play it solo.

You hear that? They gave you multiplayer that you can play ALONE, and you're still b:&@!ing. Your little universe can continue to revolve around you, without being tainted by the presence of another human being.

Nobody finds it ironic that you're beating every race over the head with the idea that they can't do it alone, while you yourselves are completely inflexible and unwilling to work with anybody else?

Because of what, "immersion?" As if stopping in the middle of a reaper invasion to go pick up some elcor laundry 3 systems away is more "immersive" than fighting husks & banshees.

Its CO-OPERATIVE horde mode. And they gave you the option of playing it alone; not having to cooperate. No different than the N7 horde missions. No different than defending your position while you wait for the shuttle/backup support. Its literally the singleplayer levels. And you can play it single-player. There is no reasonable argument unless you've got a bandwidth cap of 0.

This is a 3rd person action/rpg shooter. RPG + Shooter. Whining about having to shoot things to get points for GR is like b"@&ing about having to interact & explore to get war assets for TMS.

And 16 pages of debate for what? For a half a second teaser.

Are you afraid it'll affect your future imports? Because the council decision and the collector base made such a HUGE difference right? Whether you saved Ashley or Kaidan made an enormous impact, I'm sure. And the endings were so VASTLY different that you absolutely are forced to see all of them. (sarcasm, in case its not painfully obvious)

Play it singleplayer. Make a friend in this thread. Edit your ini if you're on pc. Watch it on youtube, then go outside. Its not that serious. I'm beginning to think people will find anything to cry about at this point.

 
Well aren't you an edgy little badass! (That was sarcasm, in case it wasn't painfully obvious)


Here's the thing: No one here is opposed to playing MP because they're terrible at it or because they have no friends. You'd know that if you bothered to read the thread. Of course, maybe you did and reading comprehension isn't your thing. When you're done whining about other people whining, maybe you can make a friend here (you know, the other thousand of people who can't grasp the solo skill of reading, that's right SOLO—and team up with them and try to figure out why some people either can't play MP or just do not have a preference for it or those who just don't like being lied to and forced into.


Heh, people complaining about other people complaining. I am beginning to think people find anything to cry about at this point. (sarcasm again, in case that wasn't painfully obvious)

Modifié par KBomb, 25 mars 2012 - 07:00 .

[Bones of Elvis]

blue water wrote...

 I was ~7000 TMS/EMS (100% readiness).  That's with importing and doing all side quests.   All these different numbers make me wonder if the in-game asset calculator is glitched.

More likely that the minds of people who can't tell the difference between TMS and EMS are glitched.

Have done 5 play throughs now ME/ME2 import, NG+ with ME3 import, NG++ ME3 import on insanity and two new build characters. The highest EMS score I've achieved was 3,600.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SCORE 4,000 EMS ON A PURE SP GAME.

[gert56nom]

before you attack TIM base just go round the galaxy map & scan every system, you can pick up ships, combat teams, vital materials etc

I managed to get over 5000 in single player on the PS3

[MDT1]

Bones of Elvis wrote...

blue water wrote...

 I was ~7000 TMS/EMS (100% readiness).  That's with importing and doing all side quests.   All these different numbers make me wonder if the in-game asset calculator is glitched.

More likely that the minds of people who can't tell the difference between TMS and EMS are glitched.

Have done 5 play throughs now ME/ME2 import, NG+ with ME3 import, NG++ ME3 import on insanity and two new build characters. The highest EMS score I've achieved was 3,600.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SCORE 4,000 EMS ON A PURE SP GAME.

This.

As people might have pointed out, the problem seems to be that retake omega was originally supposed to be in game but was cut oout for whatever reason. I expect it to be released as DLC later. If it's a payed DLC we will finally know how much Biowars "artistic integrity" is worth..

[KBomb]

gert56nom wrote...

before you attack TIM base just go round the galaxy map & scan every system, you can pick up ships, combat teams, vital materials etc

I managed to get over 5000 in single player on the PS3

Oh, Christ.  

Read my signature.

[fchopin]

I was able to get 3555 EMS from my last game but that is the best i have been able to do so far.

I hope there is a fix soon as i don’t think i will play the game again until this is fixed. I only do the destroy ending as that is the only ending i like.