Console: Xbox one
Game mode: Both gardens and graveyards and suburbination
What I did: Game loaded, past map loading screen, to character selection. Was about to select a character (scrolling through characters) and it froze or chose a character and it froze. Once after choosing a charcter and selcting it, it went black screen.
Happened in sharkbite shores, suburbia, jewel junction, and zomboss estate.
I stopped trying after 8 tries in suburbination. I was able to get in 3 out of 8 tries. Once when the game ended a few seconds after joining and I was able to play about 2 times through the whole thing. Someone else told me they couldn't get into gardens and graveyards that is how I know that mode wasn't working. I did not try any other modes or maps. The maps that I mentioned were reoccuring maps I kept popping up on so I do not know if it happens on other maps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6_bfX8H8e4&app=desktop
here is a video that I made, as soon as I got to the character screen after loading suburbination, it froze because the loading grey circle stopped moving while choosing a character. And I couldnt move the character select from peashooter (trying to go to another character such as cactus or choose a different peashooter)
I am in Maryland, near a city and I have verizon fios internet. Another person I conversed with on reddit, said they played on xbox one and also had verizon fios. But no one else gave any details on what console or internet they had.
And yes I had hard rebooted and turned off the console. It still happens everytime. I cleared cache. I even stopped playing a few hours and turned off the console to load it up about an hour later to have the same problem.