How do you play music in a WARDOGS vehicle?

Five steps from the vendor to music

Shacknews’ walkthrough is the clearest account published, and the Steam answers players gave each other on launch day match it. The tape is bought inside the vehicle, every match — not from the main vendor.

1. 01

   Unlock a tape

   Tapes sit on the class unlock paths, “like Driver and Pilot”. Reach the level, then pay to unlock it, the same way as a weapon or attachment.

2. 02

   Buy a vehicle

   Any vehicle from the vehicle vendor except the quad bike, which Shacknews rules out.

3. 03

   Press B inside it

   B on PC opens the vehicle’s Buy Ammo / Supplies screen.

4. 04

   Items → Tapes

   Click the Items box under Ammo and Logistic, scroll the tabs to Tapes, buy the tape and confirm. It goes into the vehicle’s inventory.

5. 05

   Hold F on Play Cassette Tape

   Press the interact key (F on PC), scroll down to Play Cassette Tape and hold F.

Where the tapes come from

One tape has an official level and price. BULKHEAD’s Season 1 changelog of 9 September 2026 moved Music Tape H from the Pilot path to the Driver path and halved its unlock price. Shacknews counts eight tapes at launch. BULKHEAD’s Season 02 patch notes of 14 October add two more with their levels and prices, and say the tapes were “reshuffled between the Driver and Pilot tracks” without listing where each launch tape moved.

Which songs are on them

Dexerto’s WARDOGS wiki lists eight tapes by title. The same pages give every tape a 100 cash price and “Available from start”, which the official Music Tape H row contradicts, so this page prints the titles and not the prices. Which letter is which song has not been published. One title is backed up in players’ own words: a 17 September Steam post calls the pilots’ tape their “recognizable meme song”, the “helikopter helikopter” song.

• Giants (Remix) — The Quemists
• H4ZARD — Gigilow
• HORA — Irina Rimes & Jerry Heil
• Helikopter — Fazlija
• Luili-Luili — Masha Kondratenko
• Ride of the Valkyries — Richard Wagner
• Tianqi Xu — Vodka Bomb
• You Are Not Invited — MokuMoku

Season 02 added two tapes

BULKHEAD’s Season 02 patch notes, published 14 October 2026, are the first official list of tape titles. They add two, each with an unlock on a class path and a vendor price — the per-match price of a copy, bought from the vehicle’s supplies screen like the others.

• That makes ten tapes: the eight counted at launch plus these two.
• The same notes say the tapes were “reshuffled between the Driver and Pilot tracks”, but do not list each launch tape’s new level, so Music Tape H’s Driver 23 row above may no longer hold.
• “Lonestar only” is how the notes label the Eiffel 65 tape; they do not say what players on the other two teams see in its place.

A tape is an item, not a playlist

Three things catch people out, and all three follow from the tape being a physical item like ammunition or bandages:

• It plays once. A cassette does not repeat — open the F menu and choose Play Cassette Tape again (Shacknews).
• It stays with the vehicle. Leave the vehicle, or lose it, and you buy the tape again (Shacknews).
• Since Season 02, only you and your squad can take it — by default. BULKHEAD’s 14 October patch notes make the inventories of purchased vehicles “private to the driver and their squad by default”, with a setting to open yours to everyone once the vehicle is fully unlocked; vehicles that spawn free for each team stay open to everyone. Before that, Shacknews said any player could take a tape from the vehicle inventory, and Season 1 threads on 17 September and 3 October complained of passengers taking or dropping gear mid-flight.

Too loud, or not playing at all

Two player reports, neither confirmed by BULKHEAD. On 3 October a player wrote that the FOB alarm and vehicle music “are on the same volume slider”, so turning one down turns down both; a 17 September reply gives the same advice the other way round — turn it to zero in settings if you do not want to hear it. And on launch day, the reply Steam marks as the answer to “Is music tape working?” is that it does not work in the firing range: test it in a match.

The radio station is a different thing

One 3 October Steam reply describes a buildable radio station with stations to choose from, the last of them “POST - PUNK”. That is a single player’s description, not a published feature; nothing official describes it and this site has not seen it.

What is not established

No source checked for this page — BULKHEAD’s included — publishes the following:

• The level and price of the eight launch tapes since the Season 02 reshuffle.
• Which song is on which lettered tape.
• The full list of vehicles that can play a tape, beyond Shacknews ruling out the quad bike.
• Whether passengers and nearby players hear the music, and how far it carries.
• The controller buttons for the supplies screen and Play Cassette Tape.

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