There’s no denying that Gears of War 2 has excellent multiplayer -- if only we could get to it.

Despite last week’s release of a patch to improve wait times for online play, the complaints are still rolling in on Epic’s forums, and we’re having difficulties as well.

After launch, gamers complained of excessive or indefinite wait times to enjoy multiplayer on the Xbox 360’s holiday blockbuster. Epic knew of the problems and devised a patch "to make Public matchmaking faster, especially in the single player party and the four player party case," Epic forum moderator Rod Fergusson said at the time. "Some of these adjustments should be felt immediately and some will play out over several days as our update enables us to reduce player segmentation by reducing the number of servers required to do matchmaking. This will increase the number of possible matches available for you to join.”

It appears the matchmaking problems still exist, mainly for single players looking for a game. One gamer, with the handle "ivo3," claimed to have registered at Epic’s forums just to lodge a complaint.

“First, even with the update, it takes me at least 5-10 mins to find a match," this gamer said.

"Sadly and it pains for me to say it as I adored gears 1 but the online in my opinion is no longer fun and is becoming a huge waste of time" said a commenter by the handle "ricc."

I can back these claims up personally as I haven’t been able to find a game in over a week, with the patch making things worse. I even left the console alone to search for over 20 minutes and still came back with nothing. What a pity that a great game like this is hampered by these problems.

If you’re feeling the pain of being so close, yet so far from Gears 2’s great multiplayer, we’d love to hear from you. Lodge your complaints below or on our forums. Maybe we’ll get another patch out of it.