There is a manual with the physical editions of the game.
I have no idea why there was no digital version of the manual with the initial download release (presumably the manual would have been sent to the printers in a digital format), but if it is going to be late anyway, I can sort of see the reasoning to delay releasing it until the patch is out and the manual updated. That is assuming the patch has anything to do with the delay (a reasonable hypothesis, but not necessarily actuate).
