This study examines loess–palaeosol sequences (LPS) from three closely situated sites along a slope transect in Langenlois (lower Austria), focusing on palaeoenvironmental variability during Marine Isotope Stage 2 (MIS 2). One objective is to disentangle the pedosedimentary impact of local slope processes from that of regional or global climate changes to evaluate the potential of the profiles for regional environmental reconstructions. By integrating high-resolution colour, grain-size, and geochemical analyses, we assess local depositional dynamics and identify weak pedogenic signals that are macroscopically hard to distinguish in the field. Luminescence dating and relative stratigraphy place these findings into a chronological framework. The results indicate a pronounced landscape transition from tundra to polar desert around 24 ka, a tundra gley corresponding to GI-2, and a variety of smaller fluctuations during MIS 2. Drill core LAN 4 provides an LPS mostly unaffected by slope processes, retaining loess from the end of the last glacial dating to 16.2 ± 0.7 ka. The findings highlight the sensitivity of LPS in a transitional location, as well as the trade-off between signal intensity and increased sensitivity to local environmental and topographic influences. These weak pedogenic signals can be deciphered by applying a multiproxy, multi-profile approach.