This tool disables your keybind for 
Recall Mech while you are playing as mechanist.
Why?
"Recall Mech" sends your Mech into oblivion which can be quite annoying if you are in the middle of a fight and accidentally press the hotkey (default F4).
Your keybind is only disabled while you are playing as an engineer with the Mechanist spec active.
If you tab out of the game or change your build to another spec, the keybind will be immediately restored.
Download NoRecallMech.exe from the latest release and place it anywhere you want.
Is this a virus? (spoiler: no)
You can start the tool before launching GW2 or after, it will detect the game either way.
While it runs a little Mechanist icon 
will show in your system tray. Right click it to exit.
You can customize which keybind will be disabled by providing it as a command line argument.
Supported modifier keys are: ctrl, alt, shift and windows.
F4 (default)
NoRecallMech.exe --hotkey=f4
Shift + 4
NoRecallMech.exe --hotkey=shift+4
Control+Shift+1
NoRecallMech.exe --hotkey=ctrl+shift+1
Alt + Shift + S
NoRecallMech.exe --hotkey=alt+shift+s
You can create a shortcut to this tool and add the command line argument to the target field.
Like this: "C:\path\to\NoRecallMech.exe" --hotkey=f4
Sometimes if you start the tool and then immediately tab into the game, the first notification may fail to show but the keybind will still be suppressed.
In GW2, keybinds function even when other keys are pressed simultaneously, allowing you to walk while casting a skill.
This, however, makes it a bit challenging to suppress specific keybinds. To address this, the tool identifies all simultaneously pressed keys and checks if your hotkey is among them.
If that's the case, the keypress event will be suppressed.
As a result, if you continuously hold your hotkey down, subsequent keypresses will not be detected by the game.
However, in my tests, this wasn't really an issue. In fact I didn't even notice it at all as you typically tap the hotkey briefly by accident rather than holding it down for extended periods.
While GW2 does provide a way to detect if certain text input fields are focused, not all are covered.
This means, your keybinds will not work while those fields are focused.
However, the most common ones like the chat, inventory, LFG, bank, hero panel, squad broadcast, mail, etc work just fine.
What's not covered are the search fields in the trading post and the party menu p.
Yes, pretty safe I'd say. It uses the offical Mumble Link API to detect if you are playing as an engineer with a Mechanist build active.
Your hotkey for "Recall Mech" gets caught and suppressed before it reaches the game.
The tool does not interact with the game at all.
No of course not. Review the code and pack it yourself to be extra safe. 🙂
It might get detected as a keylogger by your antivirus software. This is because it hooks keyboard events in order to suppress them.
Python 3.12
Create a virtual environment and install the dependencies:
pip install pyinstaller -r requirements.txtBuild the .exe with pyinstaller. See build.bat
- Gw2 Wiki Contributors for the MumbleLink example code
- App icon "Mechanist" by ArenaNet
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