ME3 and EMS score

On the first page, I posted this image


Look at what my ems is. Now look at my ems from a playthrough I just finished a few minutes ago.


What's the difference? I got no memorial scene. I ended up seeing earth being scorched. When getting that ending, only red is available, but I had both blue and red. The ramps for both were there for me to choose. Yesterday a patch was released. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Would Bioware change things without posting it in the patch notes? 

Interesting. I'd be surprised if they changed war asset allocation without putting it in patch notes, but one thing that did surprise me about that first picture was that you got a memorial scene. It's been a few years since I've played the trilogy, but I thought that getting your squad killed by Harbinger was the first effect you saw of low EMS, and you're barely over the minimum. And low EMS means the Normandy crashes and crew mates are likely dead. Your second picture and ending is more in line with what I remember from low EMS Destroy.

With my Paragon run a had 8111 points. I cured the genophage saved the Rachniqueen in ME1 and ME3 and saved both quarians and Geth.

I am still in my Renegeate run at the moment and i will see how it turns out

With my ems what it is, I still got earth being scorched. No memorial scene. I went back to restart my Shepard I saw that I saved the collector base. Before the remaster, if the base was destroyed, red would be the only ending, if ems was below 1750. If the base is saved, it would the blue ending. I purposely saved the base, but had no intention for blue to be the only ending. I wanted to have the memorial scene. That did not happen. Another thing I noticed is when thing was talking about the blue, there was no vision of TIM pulling the handles whereas there was a vision showing Anderson shoot the tube. When the remaster was released, I did an ME3 default playthrough with the intent to have a low ems run. I succeeded. Red was the only ending, since a default playthrough assumed the base was destroyed. It appears the patch did cause issues with the ending.

My EMS before attacking Cerberus HQ was 7396.

I kept the Collector base in ME2, but I always thought that never factored into the calculations because they were made when you started Priority: Cerberus HQ and the Heart/Brain were awarded after you did that mission.

This is my cannon Shepard that I did all the DLC, side missions and scanning in. I even brought along Allers for her small boosts which I normally don't.

I went back and double checked. All systems are at 100% so that includes the newer ones that Leviathan added in.

Interesting that this was changed.

I consider this a fairly high EMS score myself since my cannon Shepard is sort of my baseline. I didn't take those two small hits that you get for giving the asari a gun or transferring that one marine. Kirrahe is alive but the original council is dead. I cured the genophage with Wrex and Eve. This is one decision I'm open to changing since I'm not convinced the Krogan will remain peaceful, but I think this is worth more EMS than betraying Wrex for the Salarians.

I even got the full 100 war assets from the mineral scanning in ME2

OK I quickly went through the ending again this time with the following. I was able to pick up the civilian consultation authorization before hitting Cerberus HQ.

Pre Cerberus HQ: 7403
Pre Earth: 7513

This time I did get the breath scene with destroy. Interesting that the Reaper Brain/Heart is now taken into count, good though.

Something I did notice going through your war asset list and my own is that Admiral Xen was not in my war assets and under the Citadel Defense Force it said that C-Sec was focusing on smaller crimes and less able to deal with larger concerns. I told the cafe owner to hand over security footage and told C-Sec to focus on security rather than small crimes.

I noticed on your list that optimized eezo capacitors are listed as having a value of 5 when it's supposed to be 15. Great list though.

Does anyone have numbers for when the ending options become available? As in, how many war assets you need for Control, Destroy, and Synthesis to show? (I'm assuming that keeping or destroying the Collector Base still matters for which choice becomes available first.)

Ok, i killed the Geth and i do not have Garrus and i do have 7498 EMS. That means i missed the breath ending because of two points. To be honest I am a bit frustrated