EA's Battlelog announces the release of a new patch for Battlefield Hardline, updating the law enforcement shooter to version 1.02. According to the patch notes, this offers battlepacks, battlepacks, battlepacks, bug fixes, and a couch nerf. Here's word:

Battlepacks

• Bronze packs – changes made to the last slot drop to improve the chances of collectibles and vouchers rather than boosts.
• Silver packs - made the first 3 slots like a Bronze pack, and removed any chances of getting standard drops and increased the chances of collectibles for the last slot.
• Gold packs - made the first 4 slots as Silver pack, and removed any chances of getting standard items, drops advanced vouchers and greatly increased the chances of getting superior or distinguished items.
• Shortcut Battlepacks added.
• Added the Prima Guide's Gold Battlepack.

Battlepickups

• Adjusted the RPG to only have 1 ammo when picked up from a vehicle trunk and to have less splash damage.

Crash Fixes

• Fixed a crash related to some specific Nvidia based video cards.
• Fixed some low reproduction crashes related to video card drivers.
• Fixed crashes in multiplayer based on data from BugSentry (internal crash tracking tool for live servers).

Gameplay

•  Bullet impacts near the player no longer cause camera shake in certain cases.
• Fixed an issue in the Hollywood Heights map that allowed players to grab cash through a roof in the Blood Money game mode.
• Optimized game engine to increase graphics performance while punkbuster is running.

Modes

• Fixed an issue where the Hotwire game mode was showing as available for the Hollywood Heights MP map.
• Adjusted Team Death Match spawns so player is closer to friendlies and further from enemies.
• Adjusted tickets to 600 for Conquest Small and 999 for Conquest Large.
• Added Conquest Large to the Growhouse map.
• Fixed an issue were some game modes didn't have the correct amount of tickets.

Servers

• Fixed an issue with server customization settings for certain game modes.
• Added ability to clear and save a maplist when using the remote console server controls.
• Increased the size of the text character limit for the MP map lists.

Shortcut Kits

• Added licenses for all items granted in the DLC shortcuts.

UI

• Fixed an issue where players could bypass the timer at the beginning of the round during Rescue and Crosshair.
• Fixed an issue with the Chinese language EULA referring to another game title.

Vehicles

• Reduced the health of the couch and reduced the rate at which it can be repaired.
• Adjusted the criminal and law enforcement variants of the sedan so that they now take the same damage per bullet from weapons.

Weapon Tuning

• K10 - reduced start damage to 33 and end damage to 8
• Saiga, PTR 91, HCAR, and HK51 - reduced the amount of vertical recoil
• RO993 - increased the rate of fire to 850
• Jury 410 - increased the amount of damage per pellet to 20
• FMG9 - increased max damage to 25
• Battle Rifle ammo - increased min damage to 25
• AKM - bullet min damage decreased to 24

Misc

• Fixed dev only bugs related to command line arguments used for testing.