diff --git a/front/src/Phaser/Entity/PlayerTexturesLoadingManager.ts b/front/src/Phaser/Entity/PlayerTexturesLoadingManager.ts
index 95f00a9e..eaba79aa 100644
--- a/front/src/Phaser/Entity/PlayerTexturesLoadingManager.ts
+++ b/front/src/Phaser/Entity/PlayerTexturesLoadingManager.ts
@@ -59,9 +59,11 @@ export const lazyLoadPlayerCharacterTextures = (loadPlugin: LoaderPlugin, textur
     } else {
         returnPromise = Promise.resolve(texturekeys);
     }
+
+    //If the loading fail, we render the default model instead.
     return returnPromise.then((keys) => keys.map((key) => {
         return typeof key !== 'string' ? key.name : key;
-    }))
+    })).catch(() => lazyLoadPlayerCharacterTextures(loadPlugin, ["color_22", "eyes_23"]));
 }
 
 export const getRessourceDescriptor = (textureKey: string|BodyResourceDescriptionInterface): BodyResourceDescriptionInterface => {
@@ -80,11 +82,25 @@ export const getRessourceDescriptor = (textureKey: string|BodyResourceDescriptio
 }
 
 export const createLoadingPromise = (loadPlugin: LoaderPlugin, playerResourceDescriptor: BodyResourceDescriptionInterface, frameConfig: FrameConfig) => {
-    return new Promise<BodyResourceDescriptionInterface>((res) => {
+    return new Promise<BodyResourceDescriptionInterface>((res, rej) => {
+        console.log('count', loadPlugin.listenerCount('loaderror'));
         if (loadPlugin.textureManager.exists(playerResourceDescriptor.name)) {
             return res(playerResourceDescriptor);
         }
         loadPlugin.spritesheet(playerResourceDescriptor.name, playerResourceDescriptor.img, frameConfig);
-        loadPlugin.once('filecomplete-spritesheet-' + playerResourceDescriptor.name, () => res(playerResourceDescriptor));
+        const errorCallback = (file: {src: string}) => {
+            if (file.src !== playerResourceDescriptor.img) return;
+            console.error('failed loading player ressource: ', playerResourceDescriptor)
+            rej(playerResourceDescriptor);
+            loadPlugin.off('filecomplete-spritesheet-' + playerResourceDescriptor.name, successCallback);
+            loadPlugin.off('loaderror', errorCallback);
+        }
+        const successCallback = () => {
+            loadPlugin.off('loaderror', errorCallback);
+            res(playerResourceDescriptor);
+        }
+
+        loadPlugin.once('filecomplete-spritesheet-' + playerResourceDescriptor.name, successCallback);
+        loadPlugin.on('loaderror', errorCallback);
     });
 }
diff --git a/front/src/Phaser/Game/GameScene.ts b/front/src/Phaser/Game/GameScene.ts
index 72279c61..62d66c30 100644
--- a/front/src/Phaser/Game/GameScene.ts
+++ b/front/src/Phaser/Game/GameScene.ts
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ export class GameScene extends DirtyScene implements CenterListener {
     private pinchManager: PinchManager|undefined;
     private mapTransitioning: boolean = false; //used to prevent transitions happenning at the same time.
     private emoteManager!: EmoteManager;
+    private preloading: boolean = true;
 
     constructor(private room: Room, MapUrlFile: string, customKey?: string|undefined) {
         super({
@@ -259,11 +260,15 @@ export class GameScene extends DirtyScene implements CenterListener {
                 return;
             }
 
-            this.scene.start(ErrorSceneName, {
-                title: 'Network error',
-                subTitle: 'An error occurred while loading resource:',
-                message: this.originalMapUrl ?? file.src
-            });
+            //once preloading is over, we don't want loading errors to crash the game, so we need to disable this behavior after preloading.
+            console.error('Error when loading: ', file);
+            if (this.preloading) {
+                this.scene.start(ErrorSceneName, {
+                    title: 'Network error',
+                    subTitle: 'An error occurred while loading resource:',
+                    message: this.originalMapUrl ?? file.src
+                });
+            }
         });
         this.load.on('filecomplete-tilemapJSON-'+this.MapUrlFile, (key: string, type: string, data: unknown) => {
             this.onMapLoad(data);
@@ -388,6 +393,7 @@ export class GameScene extends DirtyScene implements CenterListener {
 
     //hook create scene
     create(): void {
+        this.preloading = false;
         this.trackDirtyAnims();
 
         gameManager.gameSceneIsCreated(this);