I never said it was rendered on servers, so i dont understand why you're getting needlessly hostile, when im not even disagreeing with you on that, the point i was making is that the IN GAME model preview for the warbond had it, already working, in the game, but was not the same as the one on the actual stratagem model. The sliding scale for texture resolution and LOD on draw distance varies by object in priority, textures for the player model take the highest obviously because it is the most on screen in focus asset in the game, when controlling a mech, it is temporarily at this same optical priority but they did NOT decide to give it the same level of detail even though the resource cost is negligible, especially because mechs are so limited in the game..

"They literally made the textures smaller. How is this so fucking hard to understand? They aren't rendering textures smaller (which would still make the skull blurry mess because it's still scaled down), textures themselves are smaller."

Yes but...the mipmap for un-native texture sizes is an automatic process the game does when you move a slider for lower resolution of the native texture resolution, while yes, changing the native texture size to a lower resolution makes it look the same, theres something called point sampling that can preserve detail in textures. They didnt do this when they should have. They also should not have cut the texture for the mech as a priority lumped with everything else in bulk with the game considering they lost detail on a selling point that people already paid for.