You're totally right. I was using not updated version. It's 1.0.5 for me.
I should update right away, thank you kindly sir! (Yes, i am one of those maniacs who download the games and rarely updates them even after Steam tells them to).
Also:
An easy way to skip this though would be to do a cutscene to change your Ideals, but outside of that, there shouldn't be a way with a hex editor etc. to skip it.
Could you please clarify this "cutscene to change your ideals"? Do you mean that I should choose any option on dialogue regarding new powers? Yeah, that's the problem for me: any option causes soft-lock.
Still, issue is on my side, I'll just look forward to update my ass, so thank you for your attention and many-many thanks to you directly for handling troubleshooting.
Wish u luck ! :P