Forum:Platinum Chip problem!

I'm playing through the game with the intention of working with Yes Man and have just killed Mr House.

Before I decided to work with Yes Man however, I found the Platinum Chip and gave it to House. The Chip is now not only absent from my Inventory, but also nowhere to be found in the Lucky 38, on any of the robots I killed, or at The Fort, or on Caesars corpse (where I got it from originally).

Giving House the Chip seemed like a good idea at the time. I didn't decide for drfinite I wanted to work with Yes Man until a fair whack later (20-25 hours later, I've been doing a lot of side-quests and general dicking around), and I didn't realise that I wouldn't be getting the Chip back.

So now I can't finish the game with the Legion because I killed everyone at the Fort, I can't finish it with Mr House because obviously I've just disabled him, and I can't finish it with Yes Man because I have no objective for the Wild Card quests, which leaves my only two options as helping the NCR (which I don't particularly want to do) or start again (which would be highly annoying considering I'm Level 23 and have put over 80 hours into the damn thing.). Google is being impossibly vague and the Wiki itself is being of no help whatsoever.

tl;dr, I have no Platinum Chip and no objectives in the Wild Card quest or dialogue options with Yes Man, even though House is dead and I have the Lucky 38 keycards. What do?

Many thanks

d10de

81.97.130.43 01:16, January 9, 2011 (UTC)

Do you play on PC? If so just use the console to add it to your inventory. Finish Him! 08:41, January 9, 2011 (UTC)

Unfortunately I'm playing on 360. Had I been playing on PC that would have been the first thing I'd done since I had a similar problem on Oblivion many moons ago.

A couple of my friends offered the following potential fixes, and I'm giving them a try now:

1. Killing off the rest of the Securitrons inside the Lucky 38 (since I only killed the ones in the Penthouse and the ones in the Casino are currently non-hostile)

2. Attacking Yes Man to cause him to go hostile, then leaving Vegas for a few days to 'reset' him.

3. Doing other story quests to see if that triggers Wild Card to update.

I'll report back once I'm done.

d10de

81.97.130.43 16:56, January 9, 2011 (UTC)

UPDATE: Tried all the above methods and still no joy. Killing the rest of the Securitons in the Lucky 38 did absolutely jack all, questing with the NCR doesn't produce anything remotely close to a trigger, and Yes Man (somewhat interestingly) CANNOT be turned hostile, even when I was beating him to death with Pushy.

As a last ditch brainwave, I remembered that I opened Houses Bunker before giving him the Chip in the Lucky 38, so I ran through it quickly to see if that helped. Since you need the Platinum Chip to activate the Securitron Upgrade terminal, it didn't.

I think I'm completely screwed here, and am contemplating a three-month boycott of the damn thing like I used to periodically do with Oblivion whenever it irritated unforgivably. Then I'll restart, and not make the same mistake in the future.

Fucking hell though Bethesda, way to make a point of no return completely invisible!

d10de

81.97.130.43 18:53, January 9, 2011 (UTC)