Why no XP for killing Aliens?

[SweetStarfieldFan]

I know one could just bunker and then endlessly kill respawning aliens but seriously it is also very frustrating to kill so many and survive and not get a single XP for that.
Cant they change that?

[Cat]

You get 2 xp for killing a big one, but otherwise your exp is from objectives or deployments

[wei270]

do you get exp for surriving onslaught?

[Cat]

I think so?

[EpimeTheAus]

Originally posted by wei270:

do you get exp for surviving onslaught?

I've heard it said that you do. So you get about 10XP for pissing off the hive at most I'd say.

[Elysion]

it seems worth to safely escalate right before you plan to extract

[Bad Blood]

Yeah, you get XP for Onslaughts. I've been setting up at the APC with Sentry Guns, just to provoke them, so my lower level Marines get a bit more XP.

[pRaX]

Originally posted by Bad Blood Studios:

Yeah, you get XP for Onslaughts. I've been setting up at the APC with Sentry Guns, just to provoke them, so my lower level Marines get a bit more XP.

Don't they get XP for bosses too? Or was that just Queens?

[StoriesBonesTell]

Later on drone spawn indefinitely and you can carry around 5 sentry guns and some smart guns while freely pinging them to you. XP for drones would break the game

[Chubzdoomer]

Originally posted by Elysion:

it seems worth to safely escalate right before you plan to extract

That's actually a really good idea!

[Force_Dragon]

TIP: until doomsday never use the same marines in the next deployment UNLESS you have rotated back to them. By the time I got the doomsday clock I had 14 level 10 marines and several level 8+. It can make loosing a marine less of an urge to LOAD last save. I just reached SPIRE with 12 max level marines with 7 in my memorial. 11 days left on my doomsday clock now.

[pRaX]

Originally posted by Force_Dragon:

TIP: until doomsday never use the same marines in the next deployment UNLESS you have rotated back to them. By the time I got the doomsday clock I had 14 level 10 marines and several level 8+. It can make loosing a marine less of an urge to LOAD last save. I just reached SPIRE with 12 max level marines with 7 in my memorial. 11 days left on my doomsday clock now.

Hmmm. That's strange. I had 0 dead marines in my campaign but barely got 5 people to level 10 because I tried to oneshot most missions. In hindsight I realized this is bad but the crucial question remains.
Is there an XP cap per drop?
I definitely remember having at least 2 level ups on some missions but never 3.
So I figured this shouldn't even be possible what you describe unless I'd deliberately start farming onslaughts and ofc, if there is no such cap.
Now I actually start to think there is a hard cap.