Qtest

Qtest is a Quake technology test released on February 24, 1996. It can only be played in multiplayer, but monsters can be added to the maps via hex editing. Despite its buggy and crash-prone code, Qtest became extremely popular and was played until the shareware release of Quake came out. The maps are early versions of the first three Deathmatch levels, each designed to showcase a Level Theme.

Maps

General Differences

Ranger sounds different, and has sounds for breathing and coughing, as well as rubbing against an object.
HUD has different textures and font. Another font was used in an alternative HUD found in the pak files.
HUD has no spot for Keys or Runes.
Frags are displayed at the bottom of the HUD instead of on the Scoreboard.
The Console used the Quake box art instead of being colored brown. Also the Console used font identical in appearance to Doom. Underneath the Console text was a stone texture instead of brown text.
Sprites are used in place of particle effects and models, such as torches, gargoyle statues, an exploding orb, and an indicator that someone has used a Teleporter.
Ambient sound effects do not exist.
No Powerups.
The chest gib was the player's Armor instead of a bare chest.
The eyes of the face gib were bright blue.
The Teleporters used the skybox texture.
Slime, Lava, and Water textures were completely different.

Weapon Differences

Each weapon looks completely different in model from the final version.
Nails and Shells are limited to 99.
There is no Axe.
The Nailgun fires a stream of Nails with perfect accuracy.
Nails are called Flechettes in-game.
The Super Nailgun fires two Nails at once, but the Nails disperse at range. It is called the Chainailgun in the readme file.
The Grenade Launcher fires Grenades in random directions.
The Rocket Launcher fires at a faster rate.
The Rocket fired by the Rocket Launcher has no texture.
The Thunderbolt is only found in the readme and the files.
The Chainlightning Gun is an exclusive weapon, but likewise never appears in-game.

Enemy Differences

Enemies use Ranger's sounds.
The Grunt doesn't have a pain animation and only has a wireframe texture.
The Ogre fires Nails instead of grenades.
The Knight has a different running animation, with its sword in the air.
The Fiend is unknown to work or not in the game.
The Shambler has a weaker range.
The Rotfish has animations, but they distort its body.
The Spawn cannot do any damage to the player. It also crawls at a slow speed instead of jumping rapidly towards the player.
The Scrag shoots powerful balls that explode when they hit something and cause splash damage. The balls are also sprites only. The Scrag can be killed if they are in front of their own projectile and the player touches it.
The Zombie only has a wireframe texture and only one frame of animation.
The Vomitus is an exclusive monster never added to the final game.
The Dragon is an exclusive monster never added to the final game. It however, is only found in the files and cannot be created in-game.
The Serpent is an exclusive monster never added to the final game.
The Vore is known as the Shalrath, looks completely different, and is unknown to work in the game.

Map Changes

DM2

No alcove with the Quad Damage. However, Rockets and a Rocket Launcher were placed near the alcove.
The door to the "hidden" Red Armor room is opened by walking on a piece of floor near the entrance.