Law_Man

Having read this in the manual about the offside trap I'm curious as to what a sufficient mentality is exactly? Can anyone shed any light? Does this mean a defensive mentality or a more attacking mentality? Given that mentality doesn't affect a DCs position on the pitch but it does for full backs this seems problematic at first glance.

Hektor

I know what you mean. Frankly, the only thing I can think of is trying an experiment with a really high defensive line, offside trap etc and then in one game an ultra defensive mentality all round and in the next trying allout attack and seeing which works (relatively) best.
Even so, it's all a bit confusing because if it turns out that we need defenders with attacking mentalities to play the offside trap to its full potential, what does that say for the realism of the game? I mean, weren't Arsenal in their 1-0 days experts at this dark art? Could anyone argue that Adams, Winterburn etc were attack-minded?

Law_Man

I agree, they were definitely defensively minded.

Another thing that I've just thought of is that perhaps what it's referring to by sufficient mentality as actually sufficient mental attributes but I doubt this actually because it specifically says in addition you need players who are mentally capable of focusing on the plan (read concentration, decisions, team work, positioning etc).

Leroy1883

It doesn't mean mentality in terms of the mentality slider, it means that they need a cetain level of intellegence, i.e mental attributes to successfully empoly the offside trap.

Positioning
Anticipation
Decisions
Concentration
Teamwork

Leroy1883

And your defenders need to be very close in terms of their mentality slider setting.

E.g. All for defenders on mentality 10 or 15 or 5. Just as long as they are the same or very similar.