So I was watching a playthrough and noticed the person was able to choose abilities without meditating. Why can't I do this?! I have to meditate every time I level up to choose abilities.

probably an edited video.

You can simply press 'c' at any time and allocate your unspent points.

The video is unedited. Yea but it refuses to let me spend my talents unless I meditate first.

Yaya, I was watching the angry dude's video and saw him applying talents without meditating. To further prove the point, a bit later on he was complaining about not knowing how to meditate (because he wanted to drink a potion).

But I always needed to meditate to apply the unused talents.

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the wonderful tutorial either skipped that or it went by too fast to notice. I love this game, but the tutorial is one of the worst I have seen in a long time.

On Hard and Impossible modes, you need to meditate to allocate points.

My first playthrough I did not know I could do that either. Then I watched the video and was like "WTF you could do that?"

I am on my 4th playthrough and I just found out LOl Like I said the tutorial in this game needs major work.

Didn't know that. I meditated even on Normal mode. Damn.

Well that explains it then.