Patch Notes and PC System Specs

Don't worry about a thing. You're in there like swimwear

Only area I'm not sure about is my card. I know it will run, just not sure if high/ultra is feasible: R9 290 4GB VRAM.

Any ideas? I have plenty over recommended for RAM, CPU and space and I'm using Windows 10 so I'm sure I'm good in those areas.

So I can play at high settings..... Nice.

My card is a 1050 Ti not a 1060 so I can get close, maybe keep them down a bit to favour frame rate.

Hmm, how does a GTX 1060 compare to the GTX 970? I have a Gigabyte Gaming G1 GTX 970 that's super overclocked, so I wonder how that compares in benchmarks to the 1060? At least the 970 has an extra 0.5 GB of VRAM

I'm hoping to hit very high, if not ultra settings, with my build @ 1080p :

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790k @ 4 GHz
GPU: Gigabyte Gaming G1 GTX 970
RAM: 16 GB

I'm really not the best when it comes to ATI cards... However, the R9 and the x90 suggests your card is (or was) high end. So I think you're gonna be fine with a mix of high/ultra.

In any case, as I've said before. Antialias filters are always your enemy, if you struggle a little bit, turn them bitches off or low.

I would bet you can run high pretty good still at 1080p, maybe some ultra settings still in there.

You don't really have an upgrade until 1070, the 1060 would be a bump but not by much

It might not be a 55GB download. For example, Dishonored 2 required 60GB of free space, but the download size was about 32GB. 

Yeah, it's basically just an extra needed space for future DLC's and updates.

You should be good on high settings, and I would even try playing with some ultra settings at 1080p if I were you

I think the 1060 is supposed to be slightly superior to the 980 base. I don't really know the 970 too much, with all that problem Nvidia had with the 970s (or was it the 960s?) memories.
Still, I think you'll be fine, you have a pretty good CPU and enough ram. I believe is possible to max out the game with those specs.
How much VRAM does that 970 of yours have, btw?

You may want to buy at least another 4gigs (or 8Gb if you can) of ram, just in case. I have 8gigs like you right now, but I'm not confident so I'll be buying another 8Gb. The rest is fine imo.
Assuming you end up with 16gb of ram you possibly might run the game at ultra or mix of high or ultra. However my knowledge of the 970 graphics cards is very basic (see what I discussed in the other quote above), so I'm not 100% sure.

Well the time has come for an upgrade, riding on i3/4gb/720 1vgb has totally reached its limit. New deskopt here I come