Error unable to join a session. check your network connection & try again

http://answers.ea.com/t5/PvZ-Garden-Warfare-Xbox/quot-there-are-no-available-matches-meeting-your-criteria-Please/m-p/4683284#U4683284

Have any of you played the game before? Or is this just happening for new players? What're your regions? Is everyone on Xbox 360 or Xbox One?

No, i just bought the game. we're brand new. we're in the USA, on xbox 360

The ability to get into chosen game modes is really inconsistent.  I can't find any logic as to time of day or anything else.  Extremely frustrating.

Have done the cache clear/title file delete as Basti had suggested, didn't solve the issue after redownloading the 18mb title file.

Thanks ultimatdjz

It's very hard to track down issues when people don't provide information. Mostly looking for commonality between players experiencing the problem, but cant find if its wide spread or not with only one person answering the questions while multiple are just simply complaining.

Have any of you played the game before? Or is this just happening for new players? What're your regions? Is everyone on Xbox 360 or Xbox One?

360 player, have been playing since June 2014 (my oldest achievement is June 13, 2014), but took about a 3 month break, then another break and only started playing again about a month ago.  Live in the US, Hawaii to be more specific.

Have the same issue that many others are having, after logging in, connecting to EA servers, and launching a game mode (aside from hosting Garden Ops), I receive a message stating that I'm unable to join a session, check network connection and try again.  Occasionally if I change game modes, choosing Classic G&G instead of normal, I can get in, but sometimes not.  There are times when every game mode I encounter the same issue except for hosting a Garden Ops.

As stated before, I've followed Basti's cache clear/title delete & download technique to the letter and have not found this to be a solution to the issue.  As also stated before, the problem is erratic and inconsistent, with no logical pattern as to when it occurs.  Late nights for me, sometimes I can get in, other times not, prime time/afternoons (typically the busiest) is the same way.

Do you happen to have ports forwarded? Whats your NAT settings?

The fact that you're only able to host a Garden Ops session without issue sort of shows it's a connection issue, seems like you're unable to connect to other players or EA servers.