Potentially cut special infected in the game files?

I was exploring the game files and eventually came across the files for every map in the game (resort, city, jungle, etc).

One of the files included for each map was called ‘act(insert act number and insert map letter).loot’, for instance the file for Morseby is called ‘act2a’.

After examining these files more closely it seems to be the default loot pools for every potential loot source on the map. These include dead bodies, weapon chests, and special infected.

Whats interesting was the loot pools for the special infected, more specifically the names assigned to the infected. Both the Suicider and Ram keep their respective names in these files, but the Floater and Butcher have unique names. The Floater is called ‘Fatman’ in the game files and the Butcher is called ‘Meleefighter’.

Among these special infected loot pools was one for an infected called ‘Corrupter’. I intially assumed this was supposed the be the Thug’s loot pool since they were the only other special infected that was missing a loot pool, but I quickly dismissed that theory for two reasons.

The first reason being that the name ‘Corrupter’ doesn’t correlate in any way to the design/name of the Thug.

And the second reason being that the ‘Corrupter’ had a rather unique list of crafting parts it could drop.

These crafting materials included Algae, Oleander, Stingray Tail, and a unique crafting material called ‘Drawned Meat’.

Given that Algae and Stingray tails are something that can only (naturally) be found in water, I’m assuming that ‘Drawned Meat’ is a misspelling of ‘Drowned Meat’.

This leads me to believe that the Corrupter was supposed to be found near bodies of water and have a design that reflects that, similar to how Floaters are extremely bloated from being submerged constantly.

I assume that the Corrupter was likely going to first be introduced when players entered the Jungle, as it features a large amount of bodies of water as well as plenty of spots for Oleander to grow (which is featured in the Corrupter’s crafting material loot pool).

Tell me what you guys think about this, i was able to access the files using 7zip.

EDIT: I changed the loot pool so that I would only find ‘Drawned Meat’ and tested it out ingame. I kept on finding Floater Meat rather than Drawned Meat. I also found that Floaters and Corrupters have the same numbers for weapon quality drop rates.

This can mean one of two things.

Either A: The Corrupter was supposed to be the original name of the Floater and this whole cut special infected thing is a nothingburger.

Or B: The Corrupter was supposed to drop a unique meat crafting part like the Suicider, before the idea was scrapped and the devs instead opted to change it to Floater meat. The Corrupter and Floater sharing the same weapon quality drop rates may just be a coincidence, similar to how Butchers and Rams share the same weapon quality drop rates. Not to mention that the name ‘Corrupter’ doesn’t seem to correlate with the names ‘Floater’ or ‘Fatman’, which casts doubt on the theory of the Corrupter being the original name of the Floater.