I have barely tested it yet but the pulse rifle has a 32 average dps, at over 30 at all ranges except literally touch range which is 28. For comparison the assault rifle has an average dps of 6.88. The pulse rifle has 1 lower range at 29.5 compared to 30.6 but that's negligible. Sure it has a pretty low armour penetration but does it matter? Seriously does it matter I don't know Rimworld combat that well, even then the AP is 10% compared to 16% for the Assault Rifle which isn't that much lower (I think once again not an expert) and it has a stopping power of 4.2 compared to 0.5 for the AR meaning it can actually stagger humans which the Charge and Assault Rifle can't + everything else? I think?

The max size for a creature in vanilla is 4 so I think so, maybe some modded creatures have 5+ body size. I have literally only used the pulse rifle once and it insta-eviscerated this land-bat from the kenshi creatures mod so that's all I've actually tested. The DPS numbers just seem too crazy when it isn't even that expensive.