If not where do i find the patched one?
And also wher is the game explained in detail?
IE: where to go to identify weapons,
what exactly the more non-videogamey disciplines do
like heightened senses and the like.

It is pre-patched to version 1.1, the last official one, yes. That I'm currently trying to figure out myself.

Have you tried Planet Vampire? planet-vampire.net/

I've checked the page itself among several other ones, yes. I haven't tried searching forums or asking in a community dedicated to the game yet. Guess that's what I'll have to do. Man, it blows my mind how obscure and/or bad this stuff is, especially that in the manual there's more misleading information than helpful stuff. And either the game's interface is screwed up or the mechanics just don't work at all.

I don't know for a fact and sometimes things such as mods, downloads, and information are hard to find there but I believe there are some charts, etc that may at least help. The companions problems were mostly fixed in a mod (AOR series) by javokis but it is a mod so some basics are changed and I understand that it is a lot harder. So much pressure to get games out resulting in so many problems at release; I think they'd do better saying absolutely nothing and then presenting a finished and thoroughly tested game out of the blue.