Mass Effect 3 Discussion Thread

[polonyc2]

I'm confused about the whole 'Readiness Rating' number...I've done a bunch of main missions and dozens upon dozens of side missions (planet scanning fetch quests) but my Readiness Rating is still at 50%...what do I need to do to raise this?...or does it even matter?...I thought that you didn't need to do multiplayer to get the 'best' ending if you did a lot of side missions?

I've done tons of side missions and it's getting tedious now...so the Readiness Rating does not matter as long as my War Assets hit a minimum of 4000?

 

[Monkey God]

I'm confused about the whole 'Readiness Rating' number...I've done a bunch of main missions and dozens upon dozens of side missions (planet scanning fetch quests) but my Readiness Rating is still at 50%...what do I need to do to raise this?...or does it even matter?...I thought that you didn't need to do multiplayer to get the 'best' ending if you did a lot of side missions?

I've done tons of side missions and it's getting tedious now...so the Readiness Rating does not matter as long as my War Assets hit a minimum of 4000?

RR is multiplayer, which it never really explains.

 

[polonyc2]

RR is multiplayer, which it never really explains.

if that's the case then they definitely did a poor job of explaining it...why did they add the 'Readiness Rating' number to the War Room computer screen if it doesn't apply to single player?...serves no purpose

 

[Dan_D]

if that's the case then they definitely did a poor job of explaining it...why did they add the 'Readiness Rating' number to the War Room computer screen if it doesn't apply to single player?...serves no purpose

Well getting a higher readiness in multiplayer adds to your single player score.

 

[polonyc2]

Well getting a higher readiness in multiplayer adds to your single player score.

you mean it adds to your War Assets etc or only increases your RR?...so there's no possible way of getting the RR above 50% by playing the SP alone?

 

[termite]

so there's no possible way of getting the RR above 50% by playing the SP alone?

Nope it will stay 50%.

 

[Dan_D]

you mean it adds to your War Assets etc or only increases your RR?...so there's no possible way of getting the RR above 50% by playing the SP alone?

Correct. The readiness rating is strictly tied to multiplayer. Playing MP enough allows you a higher military strength rating without doing as many side quests. So you can either do every single player quest possible or you can do just the main ones and play a lot of MP. Additionally you can import your multiplayer characters into the single player as a war asset after level 20. Or so I'm told. I haven't gotten that far in MP yet. I like it, but I don't have a lot of time for that right now.

 

[Elios]

each level 20 you import gives you 75 war assets
btw its IMPOSABLE to get 4000+ EMS with out the iOS ap or MP
at best you can get ~3500+ EMS
the good news is you only ~60% readiness to push you over 4k EMS
which takes ~ an hours worth of MP

 

[Dan_D]

each level 20 you import gives you 75 war assets
btw its IMPOSABLE to get 4000+ EMS with out the iOS ap or MP
at best you can get ~3500+ EMS
the good news is you only ~60% readiness to push you over 4k EMS
which takes ~ an hours worth of MP

If that. I've gone up as much as 8% in one match. Granted the match was at least 30 minutes or so.

 

[Q-BZ]

Kind of silly that you lose two percent a day on RR IMO.

 

[Dan_D]

Kind of silly that you lose two percent a day on RR IMO.

I don't like that either.

 

[J W]

Does anyone know what the number in the red box next to your name means in multiplayer? I know it has to do with levels, but there are only 6 classes and I've seen people with numbers way above 120.

 

[polonyc2]

so which number is more important Total Military Strength or Effective Military Strength?...which do I need to get to 4000/5000?...my current TMS is 3935 and my EMS is 1967

 

[LhasaCM]

so which number is more important Total Military Strength or Effective Military Strength?...which do I need to get to 4000/5000?...my current TMS is 3935 and my EFS is 1967

EMS to 4000/5000

 

[Dan_D]

so which number is more important Total Military Strength or Effective Military Strength?...which do I need to get to 4000/5000?...my current TMS is 3935 and my EFS is 1967

EMS. This is the one that alters the endings. You need over 4k for the "best" ending.

 

[Savi]

each level 20 you import gives you 75 war assets
btw its IMPOSABLE to get 4000+ EMS with out the iOS ap or MP
at best you can get ~3500+ EMS
the good news is you only ~60% readiness to push you over 4k EMS
which takes ~ an hours worth of MP

Um in my first play through i had over 5000 EMS from single player only, I imported my saved from Mass Effect 1 & 2 both games i maxed the levels, and i still missed some stuff, I didnt even touch multiplayer till after i beat the game. and i dont have anything ios so cant play that game. So not sure how you can say 3500 is best u can get?

 

[polonyc2]

without multiplayer, do I literally need to do every side mission to get EMS over 4000?...or can I skip a bunch of them and still somewhat easily get to 4000?

EDIT: looks like the poster above me answered it...it would be ridiculous to force people to play MP or make them do 100% of the side missions just to get the 'best' ending

 

[MorgothPl]

without multiplayer, do I literally need to do every side mission to get EMS over 4000?...or can I skip a bunch of them and still somewhat easily get to 4000?

You have to scan all the planets and do all those stupid "fetch" thingies.... or, you may come to the dark side, download gibbed ME3 save editor, and just set your war assets to 4k

 

[Dan_D]

without multiplayer, do I literally need to do every side mission to get EMS over 4000?...or can I skip a bunch of them and still somewhat easily get to 4000?

EDIT: looks like the poster above me answered it...it would be ridiculous to force people to play MP or make them do 100% of the side missions just to get the 'best' ending

They don't. But it makes it easier to skip stuff and reach your target goal.

 

[polonyc2]

You have to scan all the planets and do all those stupid "fetch" thingies.... or, you may come to the dark side, download gibbed ME3 save editor, and just set your war assets to 4k

I'm a completionist so scanning all the planets etc is something I like to do normally so it's really not that big of a deal...I did that in ME1 and ME2...but for a lot of people scanning all the Milky Way nebulas and planets would be a PITA

although I'm a not a fan of the way side missions are handled in ME3...most of them just involve scanning a planets' surface for artifacts, fuel etc...I much prefer to land on planets

 

[Dan_D]

I'm a completionist so scanning all the planets etc is something I like to do normally so it's really not that big of a deal...I did that in ME1 and ME2...but for a lot of people scanning all the Milky Way nebulas and planets would be a PITA

although I'm a not a fan of the way side missions are handled in ME3...most of them just involve scanning a planets' surface for artifacts, fuel etc...I much prefer to land on planets

I'm definitely a completionist. This game doesn't have the boring mineral mining of ME2 or the boring ass rock crawling / driving of ME1. It still takes about 40 hours or so to complete everything. But this game feels like it's much faster paced than the earlier ones the way it's done. So I'm not sure why anyone just wouldn't do everything in the game. I get it for subsequent playthroughs maybe, but I like to experience everything a game like this has to offer.

 

[LhasaCM]

Um in my first play through i had over 5000 EMS from single player only, I imported my saved from Mass Effect 1 & 2 both games i maxed the levels, and i still missed some stuff, I didnt even touch multiplayer till after i beat the game. and i dont have anything ios so cant play that game. So not sure how you can say 3500 is best u can get?

I wonder if difficulty level matters at all. I imported a saved game from ME1&2 with a max level character, completionist type playthroughs (scanning every damn planet/finishing every fetch quest/etc.)...and the best I could muster is around 3,600 EMS. I know a couple of items I missed because of earlier choices...but that can't be the difference. But, I did the playthrough on the easiest difficulty level, since I was more interested in the story than in flexing my rapidly fading shooter skills.

 

[Savi]

I wonder if difficulty level matters at all. I imported a saved game from ME1&2 with a max level character, completionist type playthroughs (scanning every damn planet/finishing every fetch quest/etc.)...and the best I could muster is around 3,600 EMS. I know a couple of items I missed because of earlier choices...but that can't be the difference. But, I did the playthrough on the easiest difficulty level, since I was more interested in the story than in flexing my rapidly fading shooter skills.

both my Mass Effect 1 & 2 were done on hardest difficulty and both of them were completionist, did every thing i could in both of them. Mass Effect 3 I was playing on insanity as well so i dono it could be?

 

[Elios]

Um in my first play through i had over 5000 EMS from single player only, I imported my saved from Mass Effect 1 & 2 both games i maxed the levels, and i still missed some stuff, I didnt even touch multiplayer till after i beat the game. and i dont have anything ios so cant play that game. So not sure how you can say 3500 is best u can get?

please upload your c.bin so i can check it
there are some "borrowed" versions that had been pre-edited
none of the "retail" can get to over ~3800EMS with out MP or the iOS ap

but war asset values are hard coded in to the c.bin file the only way to get more then ~3800EMS is to mod that file
any one with more then that ether modded the file or pirated the game with a modded file
here is a list of the war assets from the c.bin file
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjjWTRUAjzUmdGVhMm1pLURzd1AzMHVkLXVkTGIyenc#gid=1

 

[Dan_D]

both my Mass Effect 1 & 2 were done on hardest difficulty and both of them were completionist, did every thing i could in both of them. Mass Effect 3 I was playing on insanity as well so i dono it could be?

Difficulty has no impact on anything other than how hard it is to play.

 

[LhasaCM]

please upload your c.bin so i can check it
there are some "borrowed" versions that had been pre-edited
none of the "retail" can get to over ~3800EMS with out MP or the iOS ap

but war asset values are hard coded in to the c.bin file the only way to get more then ~3800EMS is to mod that file
any one with more then that ether modded the file or pirated the game with a modded file
here is a list of the war assets from the c.bin file
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjjWTRUAjzUmdGVhMm1pLURzd1AzMHVkLXVkTGIyenc#gid=1

From this - if you do everything perfectly, it looks like you could get around 4200 EMS w/o MP. That would require playing ME1 and ME2 with high resources, everyone surviving the ME2 suicide mission, and doing everything "good" while avoid anything that hurts. So I guess it's possible. Just not terribly likely.

 

[Dan_D]

From this - if you do everything perfectly, it looks like you could get around 4200 EMS w/o MP. That would require playing ME1 and ME2 with high resources, everyone surviving the ME2 suicide mission, and doing everything "good" while avoid anything that hurts. So I guess it's possible. Just not terribly likely.

It's not as hard to accomplish as you might think. You just have to take your time and do everything. The first two games make paragon and renegade choices easy to figure out. That being said in ME2 some missions will net you both paragon and renegade points. Your responses only determine the number you get of each altering that balance of points.

 

[Elios]

From this - if you do everything perfectly, it looks like you could get around 4200 EMS w/o MP. That would require playing ME1 and ME2 with high resources, everyone surviving the ME2 suicide mission, and doing everything "good" while avoid anything that hurts. So I guess it's possible. Just not terribly likely.

a good chunk of them are mutually exclusive like you cant get full Salarien support if you support the Krogan another one is you cant have both Wrex and Wreav

when you account for that its around 3800
the FULL LIST is 4200 you need to read it more

 

[Savi]

please upload your c.bin so i can check it
there are some "borrowed" versions that had been pre-edited
none of the "retail" can get to over ~3800EMS with out MP or the iOS ap

but war asset values are hard coded in to the c.bin file the only way to get more then ~3800EMS is to mod that file
any one with more then that ether modded the file or pirated the game with a modded file
here is a list of the war assets from the c.bin file
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjjWTRUAjzUmdGVhMm1pLURzd1AzMHVkLXVkTGIyenc#gid=1

hmm now i feel like a dumb ass lol, i loaded up my save right before you attack the cerberus main base, the number i was saying was the total military strength which is 5880 and my Effective Military Strength is 3939 thats the number it is now been playing some multiplayer since I beat the game last week. have the readness at 67% atm not sure what the EMS would be if it were 50%. my bad got confused there was thinking total and effective were the same thing for some reason

 

[LhasaCM]

a good chunk of them are mutually exclusive like you cant get full Salarien support if you support the Krogan another one is you cant have both Wrex and Wreav

when you account for that its around 3800
the FULL LIST is 4200 you need to read it more

I read it more - I don't quite see that many mutually exclusive items, but I'll take your word for it.

 

[Dan_D]

hmm now i feel like a dumb ass lol, i loaded up my save right before you attack the cerberus main base, the number i was saying was the total military strength which is 5880 and my Effective Military Strength is 3939 thats the number it is now been playing some multiplayer since I beat the game last week. have the readness at 67% atm not sure what the EMS would be if it were 50%. my bad got confused there was thinking total and effective were the same thing for some reason

All you need to do is level a multiplayer character up to 20 and then import it into the single player game as a war asset. It drops your MP level but raises your MP N7 level and you retain customizations already applied to the character. But you get 75 points for each level 20 multiplayer character you import into ME3's single player.

 

[LhasaCM]

All you need to do is level a multiplayer character up to 20 and then import it into the single player game as a war asset. It drops your MP level but raises your MP N7 level and you retain customizations already applied to the character. But you get 75 points for each level 20 multiplayer character you import into ME3's single player.

Sure...but Bioware claimed that you could get the "best" ending solely through single player actions. This doesn't seem to be the case.

 

[Q-BZ]

I've got awfully close to 7000 in overall war assets. Good enough or do I still have to import a level 20 MP character like Iike I'm seeing Dan mention, too?

I'm bracing myself but I'll be finishing this tonight.

 

[Dan_D]

I've got awfully close to 7000 in overall war assets. Good enough or do I still have to import a level 20 MP character like Iike I'm seeing Dan mention, too?

I'm bracing myself but I'll be finishing this tonight.

You need an EMS of 4,000. TMS doesn't mean shit.

 

[Ritorix]

If you manage to reach level 20 in MP, you will get 100% readiness as a side effect, and wont need the war assets any more

 

[Dan_D]

Sure...but Bioware claimed that you could get the "best" ending solely through single player actions. This doesn't seem to be the case.

To be fair all the endings are pretty much the same, so it doesn't really matter.

 

[Dan_D]

If you manage to reach level 20 in MP, you will get 100% readiness as a side effect, and wont need the war assets any more

Not if you skipped a few days of playing MP as it drops like 2% per day.

 

[Elios]

also some funny things on that list you get MORE assets if you dont save the Council in ME1
also you get more if you killed the Raccin queen in 1
for 2 you get more if you rewrite the geth and if you didnt blow up the collector base

there are some things like this in 3 as well if your more ruthless youll end up with more assets lol
over all you get more if you screw the Krogan if you can keep some one a live

 

[LhasaCM]

also some funny things on that list you get MORE assets if you dont save the Council in ME1
also you get more if you killed the Raccin queen in 1
for 2 you get more if you rewrite the geth and if you didnt blow up the collector base

there are some things like this in 3 as well if your more ruthless youll end up with more assets lol
over all you get more if you screw the Krogan if you can keep some one a live

But a lot of those seem to be minor differences, numerically. (For example, I'd imagine you can't get the Destiny Accension if you don't save the council...but that's made up for with higher numbers for the Allied Fleet)

 

[J W]

All you need to do is level a multiplayer character up to 20 and then import it into the single player game as a war asset. It drops your MP level but raises your MP N7 level and you retain customizations already applied to the character. But you get 75 points for each level 20 multiplayer character you import into ME3's single player.

So that's how you do it. You're the man, Dan. Anyone ever tell you that? I always wondered how people got those high N7 scores.