DRP needs to be addressed.

DRP for special party occasions only

I agree with Logix

I am not here long enough to know how sw meta evolved - however in that most recent patch when all 3 were adjusted i like that Starlight get kind of separated from the other 2 as 'ultimate' sw and it is doing that job great. But if it comes to choose between drp and zenith there is no a single thing drp do better (i guess u can argue dpr don't have visual indicator where it is, but with its short range it is easy to scout anyway).

I really would like to see a game where building drp was meaningful - that it did something that zenith would fail at. I fell like ppl build it more for meme when they know game is won already. Pls prove me wrong

Now for my private opinion what should be addressed.
Option 1: buff it range to that of zenith. In that case both sw would work quite similar - both annihilate some portion of map, zenith at one go after a saving, drp gradually but unavoidable. There is tempo to each one. With zenith u feel that pressure of meteors building up as u wonder where and when what force will be released, but u have time window between each shot to take action. With drp u see how a certain place slowly get destroyed by ever so faster rainbow bullets, but u have other places on a map that u know will be save for a while (cause of that turning speed nerf). What is important here is that both sw can counter each other and are equally exposed to threats.
Option 2: make it shoot projectiles faster and don't slow it down after turning; also reduce cost. Kind of like old drp (but with reduced range) when it get fully charged it is unstoppable. It would be top prio to find it and destroy before it reach full speed and nothing would be able to get close. It is important that such drp controls battlefield better then zenith for a similar cost but is more exposed (apart from range keep in mind hp nerfs) and also ultimately zenith would counter dpr because of range - that is why price need to be similar imo.
Option 3: nerf zenith - u can't consider yourself unhappy when there is no happiness in the world around you (or something like that)

I'd rather see DRP transformed into a demi-superweapon along side bertha, sort of how we have the cerb & desolator pair. Shorter range, but tougher to get rid of.

4K metal is not a significant difference.

In most cases, the range difference is not important, as either both SWs can reach each other or the map is small enough that everything is in range of both SWs, regardless of where you build them. In the rare cases where it would make a difference, it is a nice strategic thing to consider; if you find your team being outranged, it is mostly because the guy building it did not check the range, if you build it just a little bit closer to the front, you can reach everything in the enemy territory and you are still mostly safe from enemy silos.

I would not underestimate the fact that DRP does not reveal its position. To scout a DRP, you need a competent teammate that plays airplanes and has a significant number of swifts readily available; very often, there isn't such a fleet of swifts available or the guy just does not scout, because he is too low-ranked, which means you cannot target it with a silo for 3+ minutes (until a competent played makes an airfac plate, builds swifts, scouts, and builds an appropriately positioned silo.

When DRP is stunned, it does not damage your team with falling meteors. And generally, once some location is protected with 3+ funnels and a bunch of shields, Zenith has a hard time damaging that location, you have to wait for like 2 minutes to gather enough meteors, and if there is even a wall, they might not work at all.

Despite those arguments above, I do agree that all in all, Zenith is now the stronger weapon - mostly, because it is much easier to use it to deal with paladins and detris, which means it helps your team to deal with the logical last-effort push from the enemy team (which often has a stronger army, if they did not build a superweapon). I would either suggest increasing DRP turn rate or raising the cost of Zenith to 40k metal as well.

Starlight seems to be the King of the supers

DRP is really bad because of
- Gain speed as it fires
- Lose speed as it turns
- Slow turning speed

Comparing with other super weapons, they don't have the same losing DPS as you changes target nonsense. The other super weapons simply have much more reliable DPS to deal with wider variety of situations. Given that RTS is much of a zero-sum game, it simply make sense to use reliable options.