User blog comment:LilyheartsLightning/A Year in Retrospectre/@comment-173.189.226.12-20130317193122/@comment-2250460-20130317195033

Except that Multiplayer wasn't needed for the best ending. I played (Pre-EC I add) through the ending and chose destroy with like 3,200-3,700 War Assets, and I still got the Shepard survives ending.