I played TW1 and I know you need to rest in a fireplace, but where the hell is one here????? I'm already level 6!!!! goddamnit!

Meditate and go to character screen

press ctrl
then select what you want?

Why the F*** don't you RTFM goddamit???

Hit "C". That's it.

You don't have to meditate to level up anymore. But to meditate, just hit CTRL then select the middle option.

Its the incredible new way to make games longer.
You see, instead of put you on a tutorial level, they make it harder for us.
No checkpoints. Die 20 times, make game longer. Not an avarage 4 hours game, but a 30 hours campaign!
AWESOME, just ******* awesome.

Even Darksiders and Castlevania had checkpoints in boss battles FFS !Q#$!%@!%$@!$@!$@!

press the (default) C key. Cis for Cookie..i mean Cis for character

There's no need to meditate, wait by a fire or anything like that. Press C to bring up the Character screen. Choose the path you want to upgrade (has to be Witcher Training, the top one, for the first 6 levels), choose a skill, it'll ask for confirmation, and you'll have levelled up.

Lol. Someone here is angry over nothing lol

Oh to troll, such fun.

It's called a manual. You could read it for a minute ya know?

Oh yes you are right. It OK to put a little message on top of the screen, that teach you how to play FOR ONLY 2-3 SECONDS, no matter if you are standing or fighting, and then it dissapears. I am glad that witcher2 didnt tell me to just google it for the answer lol

I could if they gave me one with the download smartass.

For the rest, thanks for the answers

Actually you have a manual.pdf file in the root install directory of TW2.

Have you tried hitting the "View the manual" button on the launcher?

What manual do you need? There is an ingame Tutorial in your Journal. The hell are you people complaining about?
I took a good hour I think to read every little scrap of text in the entire Interface before I started rampaging around. Jesus...