Average Joe peasant said:
I think it looks stupid and sloppy to have models and textures and shaders and whatnot that are of much higher quality mixed in with stuff that's lower quality. Might as well make an effort to upgrade all of it to the same level, or just forget about it. It's just irritating to look at those screens.
I expect many of the armours will be upgraded. They will, almost certainly, all be bump mapped at least.