How do you keep Shepard alive in me3?

How to Save Shepard
  1. Achieve a Total Military Strength Score of at least 7,800. ...
  2. Start Priority: Earth.
  3. Reach the point where Shepard must pick between Control, Destroy, Nothing, or Synthesis.
  4. Go for the Destroy final choice by shooting the red pillar with your pistol.
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How do I get Shepard to survive me3 legendary?

Your moral standpoints might reflect more with the implications of the Control or Synthesis endings, choosing to destroy the Reapers with a Total Military Strength of 7800 or more is the only way to ensure Shepard's survival. Said survival is along with that of your crew and minimal collateral damage to Earth.
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How do I make sure Shepard survives?

In order to get the absolute perfect ending and unlock the secret ending showing the survival of Commander Shepard, you must:
  1. Reach 5000 Effective Military Strength (EMS) NOT 5000 Total Military Strength.
  2. You must also choose to DESTROY the Reapers (NOT synthesis or control).
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Does Shepard survive me3 destroy?

Tully Ackland, a community coordinator for BioWare addressed questions regarding Shepard's death and confirmed that he or she in fact lives at the end, provided that the player chooses the "Destroy" ending.
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Will there be a Mass Effect 4 with Shepard?

Bioware developer Mike Gamble posted a statement on Twitter that seemed to indicate that Shepard isn't going to be in the game. He wrote: “Yeah, that was a mistake. Fixed.” He followed up by saying: “The original thing was written by the people who run the store and aren't familiar with the game.”
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Mass Effect 3 - How to Get the Best Ending without Multiplayer



Is Shepard alive in Andromeda?

Depending on the player's choices, Shepard survives in one of Mass Effect 3's endings. It's unclear whether Shepard will be back, but at the very least, original party member Liara will be making some kind of appearance.
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How many War Assets does Shepard need to survive?

Provided that you have 7800 War Assets or more, Commander Shepard will survive the blast, along with the entire Normandy crew.
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Is there a Mass Effect 4?

Without a doubt, Mass Effect 4 is one of the most anticipated games on the far horizon. With BioWare's signature style and a combination of the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies, the game has a ton of potential. Mass Effect 4 is also reportedly using Unreal Engine 5 to boot.
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Can Shepard survive synthesis?

Synthesis (Green): Shepard can sacrifice themselves to merge all organic and synthetic life in the galaxy, preventing the Reapers from needing to continue the cycles. With this option, Earth survives, and Shepard's squad survives and are synthesized.
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What is the perfect ending ME3?

To get the Perfect Ending, Shepard must choose the Destroy Ending, activating the Crucible. Earth and the Normandy Crew will all survive the blast. In the epilogue cutscenes, Shepard's love interest, if they are a squadmate, will refuse to put the Commander's name on the Normandy's Memorial Wall.
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What is the best choice at the end of ME3?

The finale to Mass Effect 3 is far more weighted and, given that many players have grown close to Shepard, the Destroy option seems like the obvious best choice here. All of the other options end with Shepard dying in some way, and the final option of the four does the last thing anyone would want to happen.
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Does EDI survive the destroy ending?

EDI's body will be destroyed but not her data base, meaning she still exists but not in her form she took from Dr. Eva. The Geth, sadly because Legion was my absolute favorite of Mass Effect 2, are more then likely gone unless Legion's sacrafice made them more then just synthetics.
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Why does Shepard only live in Destroy ending?

At the end of Mass Effect 3 the Crucible explains to Shepard that choosing the Destroy Ending will wipe out all synthetic life in the galaxy, and even points out that Shepard has some synthetic parts due to being rebuilt by Project Lazarus.
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Which end saves Shepard?

Mass Effect 3 ending - Destruction (Red)

At lower Total Military Strength this will destroy everything else too, though if you're prepared enough then it's possible to save Earth, the Normandy crew, and Shepard. This is the only ending choice where Shepard can survive.
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Is Shepard surviving canon?

It's possible that Shepard's armor survived this process even if they did not. Players can assume with some certainty, however, that the remaining two endings are not canon conclusions to the Mass Effect trilogy.
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Will Mass Effect 5 have Shepard?

A product page suggesting Shepard might return was a "mistake," BioWare says. BioWare has responded to internet speculation that Commander Shepard will return in the next Mass Effect game, and it sounds like that is not going to be the case.
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Will there be a 5th Mass Effect game?

What we're calling Mass Effect 5 for the time being, is officially in the works. And it's expected to follow in the footsteps of the story established with Mass Effect Legendary Edition perhaps with some Mass Effect: Andromeda sprinkled in.
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Why was Mass Effect: Andromeda such a failure?

Shortly after release, it was revealed mismanagement and the problematic Frostbite Engine were allegedly the key causes of those woes, along with a complete retooling of the project less than two years out from release.
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Can you get the best ending in ME3 without multiplayer?

Yes, you can - in the Extended Cut free DLC which updates ("fixes") the endings, the required EMS readiness was lowered to 3100 from 4000 (SPOILERS - source - Extended Cut info) and it is certanly possible to achieve the 6100 military strength points required for best endings with 50% readiness penalty just by playing ...
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Can you save Anderson ME3?

You need to get at least 95% of your galaxy readiness. Without it, Shepard will not survive and Anderson will not live. you do not need 95% of galaxy readiness. No matter how many galaxy readiness, Shepard will die because each choice at the Crucible leads to death anyways.
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Is there a canon Shepard?

"Yup, Commander Shepard was originally a woman," said Cooper. That settles it once and for all: FemShep is the one true Commander Shepard. This is definitely canon, right, BioWare? Check out our coverage of BioWare's most recent N7 Day roundtable for more on the next Mass Effect game.
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Are the Reapers in Andromeda?

Despite having the capacity and longevity to travel to and from intergalactic space, writer Mac Walters has revealed that there are no Reapers in the Andromeda Galaxy, the setting of BioWare's 2017 game Mass Effect: Andromeda.
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How did Shepard come back to life?

When Commander Shepard was killed in a Collector attack that also resulted in the destruction of the SSV Normandy, Cerberus was able to recover Shepard's corpse with the help of Liara T'Soni.
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