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Looking through their Discord it seems there hasn't been any details yet regarding how this is going to work if this indeed is real. I highly doubt Faceit would want to vastly weaken their effectiveness on Linux in the same way EAC and Battleye do by running it as a user process. Even if just speculation, that would mean a kernel module that would need secure boot enabled (though even that is not required for the windows variant in battlebit) with a signed kernel and so on and would only work for specific distros?
From the statement above and other comments, it's a new FaceIt product sometimes described as "lite", which gives me the impression it is a Usermode anti-cheat.
Yeah, looking at the weekly recap stream where they actually talked about it, it is indeed a new anti cheat like you mention that (according to their own statement) is still more effective than "what they have now" (that being eac). https://youtu.be/nIay2Aq2ars?t=702 Apparently they want to do a stream again with the team from Faceit talking about it in more detail.